US Patent Issued to DT SWISS on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus and method for testing the quality of bicycle components" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,088, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DT SWISS INC. (Grand Junction, Colo.).

"Apparatus and method for testing the quality of bicycle components" was invented by Andreas Henig (Biel, Switzerland), Christophe Witschi (Bourrignon, Switzerland), Martin Walthert (Aarberg, Switzerland) and Alexander Dillenz (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility and its use and method of examining the production quality of bicycle components with a control device, a heat source and a camera. The heat source applies heat on the bicycle component during a measuring process. The camera captures a spatially resolved thermal image of t...