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I believe that the difference in wording between the description about brakes ("communicate with"), and derailleur ("operate") give more of an indication of the coming features. A complete brake-by-wire system is very complex, and requires far more ingoing components than what's described in this patent. What they describe here could of course work conjointly with such a system if/when they get to it. A more likely first step in Shimanos brake-by-wire foray is telemetry, i.e reading of sensors. The most likely values being piston force, piston position, piston speed or temperature . However, that's not only something of interest for...