ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,594, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).
"Assignable pairing order" was invented by Kristi Lin (Chicago), Jaime Garnica (Skokie, Ill.) and Alexander Kon-I Ho (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a bicycle includes a plurality of controller devices. A type of controller device is the same for two or more controller devices of the plurality of controller devices. The system includes a pairing coordinator device configured to receive a respective device type identification from each controller device, and identify the type of controller device for the two or more controller devices based on the received ...