ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,363, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Bicycle component" was invented by Akihiro Nozaki (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Takimoto (Osaka, Japan), Tomoki Koide (Osaka, Japan) and Koki Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle component is basically provided with a sensor, a controller and a communicator. The sensor is configured to detect an input to the bicycle component from an obstacle. The controller is configured to be electrically connected to the sensor. The controller is configured to obtain information related to an unusual state of the bicycle component based on an output from t...