ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,100, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device for controlling a motor of an electric bicycle" was invented by Joseph Reck (Filderstadt, Germany), Daniel Baumgaertner (Tuebingen, Germany), Matthias Weinmann (Balingen, Germany) and Merlin Martin Manewald (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling a motor of an electric bicycle. The device includes a control electronics system that is set up to control a torque of the motor in a normal operating mode based on an acquired driver torque; to detect during normal operation whether, at the current motor torque, no ...