ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,050, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Human-powered vehicle control device" was invented by Keiji Terashima (Osaka, Japan), Shinichiro Noda (Osaka, Japan), Taihei Nishihara (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshinori Iino (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human-powered vehicle control device includes an electronic controller that changes a control state of an assist motor in accordance with an operation of an operating device. The control state includes a first control state, a second control state where the motor is driven in correspondence with a human driving force input, and a third control state whe...