ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,873, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boost Treadmills LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Comparative exercise session equivalence for unweighted exercise, MicroGravity systems and related devices and methods" was invented by Sean Tremaine Whalen (Mountain View, Calif.), Thomas Jack Waldo Allen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Tremaine Whalen (Los Altos, Calif.) and Matthew Laye (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided of evaluating comparative equivalence for a user of a MicroGravity system between an unsupported exercise session and an unweighted MicroGravity exercise session. The method includes receiving, for a com...