ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,309, issued on March 17, was assigned to Peloton Interactive Inc. (New York).

"Coordinating workouts across remote exercise machines" was invented by David Owen Packles (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Joseph Intonato (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Thomas Cortese (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Matthew Sonier (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Benoit Dion (New York), John Foley (New York), Yu Feng (New York) and Hans Schlichting Woolley (West Hollywood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, with a processor in communication with a first exercise machine, a first request for an exercise class, the first request being provided by a first user of the first exercise...