ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,730, issued on June 2, was assigned to Spine Care Technologies Inc. (Glen Head, N.Y.).
"Fitness devices" was invented by Roland Kiser (Glen Head, N.Y.), David Cuccia (Syosset, N.Y.) and Alan Squillante (Kings Park, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitness device includes a base assembly, a table coupled to the base assembly, and a foot restraint coupled to the base assembly. The foot restraint is configured, responsive to a change in a relative position of the foot restraint with respect to the table, to apply a resistive force to at least one of one or more feet and one or more ankles of a user positioned in the fitness device. ...