ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,068, issued on June 16.
"Encoding exercise machine control commands in subtitle streams" was invented by Eric S. Watterson (Logan, Utah), Chase Brammer (Providence, Utah), Christian Hathaway (Logan, Utah) and Rebecca Lynn Capell (Logan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an exercise machine using a video workout program including encoding, remotely from the exercise machine, exercise machine control commands into a subtitle stream of a video to create the video workout program, wherein the exercise machine control commands are encoded at least once per second, decoding, locally to the exercise machine, the s...