US Patent Issued to Hydrow on Nov. 3 for "Rowing exercise machines having a configurable rowing feel" (Massachusetts, California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,278, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hydrow Inc. (Boston).

"Rowing exercise machines having a configurable rowing feel" was invented by Bruce Smith (Boston), Klaus Heribert Renner (Hollis, N.H.), William Churchill Taliaferro Burke (San Francisco), Jose Oscar Mur-Miranda (Boston) and Christopher Olin Evans (Amherst, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, a rowing exercise machine includes a movable inertial element, an eddy current brake coupled to the movable inertial element, a rowing grip coupled to the movable inertial element, and control circuitry coupled to the eddy current brake to cause a resistance to motio...