ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,592, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fitness bike and controlling method thereof" was invented by Do Keun Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Jinwoo Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Yangtae Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a fitness bike and a method of controlling the same. The fitness bike according to the present invention includes an operation lever configured to restrict a clutch gear unit to a flywheel to allow the flywheel to operate in a non-freewheel mode and release the restriction between the clutch gear unit and the flywheel to allow t...