ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,539, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wearable fitness apparatus using elastic cable" was invented by Junghoon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungchan Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minhyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongtae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Maria Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keehong Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoungwoon Hahm (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungyong Hyung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungsik Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable fitness/exercise/assis...