US Patent Issued to SRAM on Sept. 9 for "Power on pairing for electronic components of a bicycle" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,170, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SRAM LLC (Chicago).

"Power on pairing for electronic components of a bicycle" was invented by Shelby Sessions (Chicago), Sage Hahn (Chicago) and Joachim Veeh (Schweinfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component for a bicycle includes a communication interface and a processor in communication with the communication interface. The processor is configured to identify a first power on time. The first power on time identifies a time at which the electronic component was powered on by a power source of the bicycle. The processor is configured to listen for one or more message...