US Patent Issued to adidas on Oct. 20 for "Automatic cycling workout detection systems and methods" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,365, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Automatic cycling workout detection systems and methods" was invented by Alan Lee (Montara, Calif.), Stephen John Black (Portland, Ore.) and Jason Iijima (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods can be used including receiving motion data including comparing time-stamped speed data with predetermined cycling speed ranges, categorizing the speed data into portions of a minute that indicate each of the predetermined cycling speed ranges, determining portions of a minute indicate a cycling activity has begun, determining por...