ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,873, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Method and system for automated personal training" was invented by Teresa Aragones (Portland, Ore.), Byron G. Merritt (Portland, Ore.), Christina S. Self (Portland, Ore.), Willoughby H. Walling (Portland, Ore.), Xavier Jacob (London), Geoff Northcott (London) and Robert Thomsen (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments may relate to a system, method, apparatus, and computer readable media configured for monitoring a user performing an exercise and generating a avatar of the user and a virtual shadow, wherein the virtual shadow illustrates proper form...