ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,279, issued on June 30, was assigned to AMP FIT ISRAEL LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems and methods for cloud mediated exertion challenges" was invented by Shalom Meckenzie (Savyon, Israel), Tal Soffer (Ramat Gan, Israel), Rebecca Shultz (San Carlos, Calif.) and Amir Levanon (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User-initiated and cloud mediated exertion challenge operations are disclosed. A sensor captures first sensor data reflecting a first subject performing a first exertion, the sensor data reflecting at least one parameter associated with the first exertion. The first sensor data is converted into a challenge, and t...