ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,237, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Personal performance feedback relative to workout community" was invented by Anthony D'Auria (San Francisco), Brady J. White (San Jose, Calif.), Brian R. Drell (San Jose, Calif.), Joel J. Angelone (San Francisco), Rex Carroll Ross (San Jose, Calif.), Julie A. Arney (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jay K. Blahnik (San Francisco), Michael D. Ford (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Chandler S. Bachman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computing system can provide personal performance feedback relative to a workout community during a workout. For exam...