US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 30 for "Bicycle mount" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,929, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Bicycle mount" was invented by Katriena M. McKeever (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to mounting bicycles to vehicles. In one arrangement, a bicycle mount is disclosed. The bicycle mount includes shafts forming a spatial arrangement around a central bicycle mount axis. The shafts define shaft axes, shaft lengths, and one or more bores extending axially along the shaft length. The one or more bores are sized to receive a front wh...