ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,333, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Exercise equipment and method for controlling exercise equipment" was invented by Junyoung Huh (Seoul, South Korea), Youngshik Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Sungwon Beom (Seoul, South Korea) and Taehee Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are exercise equipment and a method for controlling the exercise equipment including a main body forming an external shape of the equipment, an extendable/retractable wire that is disposed inside the main body and exposed to the outside of the main body, a load generator that provides a set lo...