US Patent Issued to Shimano on Dec. 16 for "Human-powered vehicle control device and human-powered vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,128, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Human-powered vehicle control device and human-powered vehicle control system" was invented by Satoshi Shahana (Osaka, Japan), Akira Inoue (Osaka, Japan), Akinobu Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan), Atsuhiro Emura (Osaka, Japan), Nobukatsu Hara (Osaka, Japan), Hitoshi Takayama (Osaka, Japan) and Shingo Sakurai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The control device includes an electronic controller that is configured to control a motor that assists in propulsion of the human-powered vehicle. The electronic cont...