ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,910, issued on May 13, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).
"Front chainring assembly" was invented by Kevin Jasper (Spearfish, S.D.), Isaiah Miller (Spearfish, S.D.) and Joshua Neiman (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chainring assembly includes a chainring carrier adapted to be coupled to a crank arm. The chainring carrier is rotatable about a rotation axis and includes an outer periphery having carrier threads. A chainring structure includes an inner periphery having chainring threads and an outer periphery comprising a plurality of teeth. The inner periphery of the chainring structure is threadably engaged ...