ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,337, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pinion GmbH (Denkendorf, Germany).
"Gear arrangement and drive unit" was invented by Michael Schmitz (Niederelbert, Germany), Christoph Lermen (Karlsruhe, Germany), Linus Geiger (Kongen, Germany) and Friedemann Bohmler (Esslingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gear arrangement for a vehicle, in particular for a vehicle which can be driven using muscular force, such as a bicycle. The gear arrangement has a housing, an input shaft, layshaft, an output shaft which can be connected to a drive wheel of the vehicle. A plurality of shiftable first gear wheel sets connect the input shaft and the...