ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,935, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Devices and methods for configuring a wearable device for exercise tracking" was invented by Peter Exner (Malmo, Sweden) and Hannes Bergkvist (Rydeback, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for configuring a wearable device for exercise tracking includes a data storage unit for storing sensor data generated by a sensor arrangement in the wearable device based on sensed movement of the wearable device and optical movement data including representations of an individual obtained from an image-based monitoring system; and a processing unit configured to: ex...