ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,553, issued on June 23.
"Exercise leaderboard" was invented by Rebecca Lynn Nielsen (Millville, Utah), Chase Brammer (Providence, Utah), Craig Stapley (Lake Havasu City, Utah) and Dustin Sanders (Logan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium may contain instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive a user profile of a first user of an exercise device, receive user profiles of a plurality of users, assign weights to the user profiles of the plurality of users, and, using the assigned weights, rank the plurality of users based on similarity to the first user. The...