ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,357, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS INC. (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

"In-frame mounted bicycle monitoring device" was invented by Marco Sonderegger (Brenzenschwil, Switzerland), Jan Talavasek (Knonau, Switzerland), Tero Jakku (Bonstetten, Switzerland), Vincent Patureau (Zurich, Switzerland), Marc Pallure (Zug, Switzerland) and Jonas Reiter (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device can be mounted at least partly in a frame of a bicycle and used to monitor operations or properties of the bicycle or one or more components associated with the bicycle. The electronic device may int...