ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,807, issued on April 14, was assigned to Balanced Body Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Chair exercise apparatus" was invented by Harbir Singh (Roseville, Calif.) and Yunhui Liu (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chair exercise apparatus has a frame, an inverted Y shaped seat support member fastened to an upper portion of the frame, a seat fastened to an upper end of the seat support, and a pair of parallel arms each having a proximal end extending toward the frame and a foot support fastened to a distal end of each arm. Each arm is biased upward away from the frame. A pair of hinged support post members is fastened to ...