ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,234, issued on March 17, was assigned to iFIT Inc. (Logan, Utah).
"Controlling access to a stationary exercise machine" was invented by Blake Watterson (Logan, Utah) and Mark D. Watterson (Logan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect of the disclosure, a method may include establishing one or more authorized users of a stationary exercise machine having one or more moveable members, automatically locking the one or more moveable members of the stationary exercise machine, and receiving a request to perform a workout on the stationary exercise machine. In response to the receiving of the request to perform the workout on ...