US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Sept. 23 for "Method for controlling an electric bicycle, and electric bicycle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,888, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for controlling an electric bicycle, and electric bicycle" was invented by Matthias Weinmann (Balingen, Germany), Daniel Baumgaertner (Neustetten, Germany), Andreas Wienss (Eningen Unter Achalm, Germany) and Joseph Reck (Filderstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an electric bicycle that can be operated with motor force and/or with pedal force is disclosed. The method includes (i) providing a trigger signal for enabling the activation of a walk mode to a control unit of the electric bicycle, (ii) providing a mea...