US Patent Issued to SRAM on June 3 for "Bicycle control system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,384, issued on June 3, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).

"Bicycle control system" was invented by Sage Hahn (Chicago), Brian Jordan (Highland Park, Ill.) and Kevin Wesling (Lombard, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle with an electric pedal assist motor capable of driving a chainring independent of cranks includes wheel speed sensors and crank cadence sensors. The wheel speed sensors and the crank cadence sensors measure wheel speed and crank cadence, respectively, and provide the measured wheel speed and crank cadence to controller of the bicycle. The controller activates motor overdrive based on the measured wheel speed ...