ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,932, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHIMANO INC. (Sakai, Japan).
"Motorized component and control system of human-powered vehicle" was invented by Yuki Sakagawa (Sakai, Japan), Toyoto Shirai (Sakai, Japan), Satoshi Shahana (Sakai, Japan), Hitoshi Takayama (Sakai, Japan) and Noor Ashyikkin Binti Mohd Noor (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized component of a human-powered vehicle includes an electric actuator and controller circuitry configured to control the electric actuator. At least one of the electric actuator and the controller circuitry is configured to be electrically connected via an electric cable to a ...