ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,869, issued on June 17, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for monitoring the travel speed of a bicycle" was invented by Juergen Stegmaier (Wannweil, Germany) and Tim Dackermann (Tuebingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the travel speed of a bicycle, in particular a pedelec. The method includes: providing a power supply for a speed signal transmitter, ascertaining a first speed for the bicycle, interrupting the power supply for the speed signal transmitter for a specifiable interruption time span, while the power supply is switched off, ascertaining a second speed, ascerta...