ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,420, issued on July 22, was assigned to MONT INVEST 30 AS (Oslo, Norway).
"Pedally propelled multi-speed gear system" was invented by Knut Tore Ljosne (Lom, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedally propelled vehicle multi-speed gear system with a number of unique gear-ratios, including a main shaft, an epicyclic gear section with an input and an output, the epicyclic gear section being arranged coaxially on the main shaft, the epicyclic gear section including a first and second interconnected epicyclic gear sets, and the first and second epicyclic gear sets including a sun gear, a planetary gear, and a ring gear, the main shaf...