ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,893, issued on July 21, was assigned to Peloton Interactive Inc. (New York).

"Exercise system" was invented by John Chester Consiglio (New York), Alexander Bricknell Chatham (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Terry Lee Gonzales (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deck for a treadmill includes a continuous belt, and a plurality of rollers engaging the continuous belt. The continuous belt and rollers at least partly define cavity of the deck. The deck also includes a first motor configured to modify a position of the deck relative to a support surface on which the deck is supported, and a second motor configured to modify a speed of rot...