ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,049, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sport Import GmbH (Edewecht, Germany).
"Bicycle pedal with pins with skewed teeth" was invented by Swen Lauer (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle pedal includes a pedal body with a first contact surface and an opposite second contact surface, a plurality of pins is arranged on the first contact surface, and a plurality of pins is arranged on the second contact surface. At least one of the pins has a tooth with a skew relative to the respective contact surface of the bicycle pedal, the skew of the tooth has an angle Alpha of between Alpha=5deg and Alpha=45de...