ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,906, issued on April 1, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for classifying an accident event involving a two-wheeled vehicle" was invented by Jan Schnee (Weil Im Schoenbuch, Germany) and Juergen Stegmaier (Wannweil, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying an accident event of a two-wheeled vehicle, in particular a bicycle. The method is able to run as an algorithm on a device having an evaluation unit in order to indicate to the driver of the two-wheeled vehicle or to a third party a collision or fall of the two-wheeled vehicle with the aid of correspondingly generated a...