US Patent Issued to SHIMANO on July 15 for "Operating device of human-powered vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,587, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHIMANO INC. (Sakai, Japan).

"Operating device of human-powered vehicle" was invented by Kosuke Kitahara (Sakai, Japan), Kentaro Kosaka (Sakai, Japan) and Yoshimitsu Miki (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating device of a human-powered vehicle comprises a clamp and an operating structure. The clamp is mountable to the human-powered vehicle. The operating structure is configured to receive a user input operation. The operating structure is pivotally coupled to the clamp about a base pivot axis. The operating structure is pivotable relative to the clamp about the base pivot axi...