US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 2 for "Electrically assisted bicycle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,994, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrically assisted bicycle" was invented by Takaaki Hosaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present disclosure to prevent backward movement of a bicycle on an uphill slope, the backward movement not being intended by a user. An electrically assisted bicycle according to an example of embodiments includes a controller, a second mode operational element, a brake unit, and an acceleration sensor. The controller controls the brake unit based on vehicle inclination angle information acquired by t...