ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,830, issued on Aug. 18.

"Video workout programs" was invented by Eric S. Watterson (Logan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a video workout program. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method may include capturing a first video that includes a depiction of a trainer performing a workout, combining the depiction of the trainer in the first video with a second video that moves through an environment to form a combined video in which the trainer appears to move through the environment; and encoding exercise machine control commands into a subtitle stream of the combined video to create the video workout program, execution o...