US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 15 for "Drive arrangement for a bicycle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,699, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Drive arrangement for a bicycle" was invented by Jakob Lauhoff (Tubingen, Germany), Kevin Holder (Meckenbeuren, Germany), Oliver Lochte (Wangen, Germany), Janik Pagel (Lindau, Germany) and Finn Neumann (Ravensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive arrangement for a bicycle includes a pawl freewheel, the pawl freewheel having a first ring, at least two pawls movably mounted on the first ring, and a second ring having a toothing. The at least two pawls are unevenly spaced in the circumferential direction on the first ring. The drive...