ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,037, issued on May 27, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Holding device for releasably holding a bicycle accumulator on a bicycle frame" was invented by Dennis Mehlo (Taipei, Taiwan), Lisa Bayer (Stuttgart, Germany), Peter Kunert (Lichtenstein, Germany) and Wolf Zahn (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding device for releasably holding an accumulator, in particular a bicycle accumulator, on a frame, especially a bicycle frame, and includes at least a carrier unit provided with at least a carrier element, especially a guide rail, for the at least partial accommodation and/or guidance of the ...