US Patent Issued to Peloton Interactive on Sept. 2 for "Detecting objects proximate to a treadmill" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,373, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Peloton Interactive Inc. (New York).

"Detecting objects proximate to a treadmill" was invented by Jody Nguyen (New York), Alvin Dominguez (New York), Spike Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tobey Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exercise machine can include sensors to detect objects proximate to and/or moving towards the exercise machine. For example, a treadmill, or a control system associated with the treadmill, can determine an object is moving towards or is already proximate to a deck of the treadmill (e.g., a front area, middle area, or rear area of the deck of the treadmill)...