US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Jan. 20 for "Crank spindle set-up, control and/or evaluation method and unit for a crank spindle set-up, and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,559, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Crank spindle set-up, control and/or evaluation method and unit for a crank spindle set-up, and vehicle" was invented by Michael Zegowitz (Tuebingen, Germany), Christoph Ossmann (Reutlingen, Germany) and Frank Schatz (Kornwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crank spindle set-up for a vehicle. The set-up includes a crank spindle for receiving a force/torque from pedaling using crank arms attached to ends of the crank spindle; an output shaft for receiving a force and/or a torque from the crank spindle; a mechanical coupling having a tap bet...