ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,315, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Peloton Interactive Inc. (New York).

"Pausing delivered content during connected fitness activity" was invented by Daniel Jeremy Feinberg (Jersey City, N.J.), Jay Patel (Bloomfield, N.J.), Tom Mudgett Mejia (New York), Juan Erazo (Jupiter, Fla.), Deep Jayesh Parekh (Jersey City, N.J.), Elise Vickery (New York) and Anand Chaturvedi (Kingston, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling users to pause interactive content, such as streamed exercise classes, and return to the classes without compromising their class performance statistics or metrics are described. For example...