ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,535, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TEKTRO TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sioushuei Township, Taiwan).

"Pairing method and bicycle control system" was invented by Hsun-Yu Chuang (Sioushuei Township, Taiwan) and Hung-Jui Lin (Sioushuei Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pairing method is adapted for a first bicycle assembly and a second bicycle assembly. The pairing method includes driving the first bicycle assembly to perform a self-check procedure and determining whether the first bicycle assembly passes the self-check procedure. If yes, completing pairing between the first bicycle assembly and the second bicycle assembly. If ...