ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,158, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MONT INVEST 30 AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Pedally propelled vehicle gear system and method for operating such" was invented by Knut Tore Ljosne (Lom, Norway), Jakob Deraas Grimsgaard (Nittedal, Norway) and Daniel Preining (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a pedally propelled vehicle gear system, includes a multi-speed gear configured to provide varying gear ratios between a gear input element and a gear output element, wherein the method includes receiving a shift control signal indicating that a gear shift should be performed, providing a boost control si...