ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,487, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).
"Electric bicycle" was invented by Berno Johannes Engelbert Misgeld (Neuss, Germany) and Dietmar Greven (Dormagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric bicycle includes a front wheel, a rear wheel, an electric traction motor which drives the front and/or rear wheel, a traction battery which supplies the electric traction motor with electrical power, a controller for actuating the electric traction motor, a pushing-aid controller for controlling an adaptive pushing-aid function which is assisted by the electric traction motor depending on an interaction force be...