US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on July 1 for "Method for changing a transmission ratio of a gearing of a bicycle, computer program, controller, drive unit, and bicycle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,349, issued on July 1, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for changing a transmission ratio of a gearing of a bicycle, computer program, controller, drive unit, and bicycle" was invented by Christian Reisige (Tuebingen, Germany), Marcus Boege (Dusslingen, Germany), Thomas Mattes (Eningen Unter Achalm, Germany), Merlin Martin Manewald (Reutlingen, Germany) and Daniel Baumgaertner (Neustetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for changing a transmission ratio of an electrically controllable gearing of a bicycle, in particular of an electric bicycle, includes (i) measuring a pedaling frequency ...