Browning Component Inc is the designer as well as supplier of the Browning SmartShift bicycle transmission. The company's founders, the Browning family, have been in the manufacturing industry for 4 generations, going back to the Browning Firearms business. The family has used its history of precision and quality engineering to develop the world's first computerized, automatic bicycle transmission. Throughout the evolution of the Browning transmission, the technology has gained many avid followers, with some calling it one of the two most important inventions for bicycles in the past 100 years.

Browning has, over the years, accumulated a great deal of technical knowledge concerning automatic bicycle transmissions and the proper function thereof. An announcement concerning Browning and its Intellectual Property will be posted in the near future.