ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,869, issued on March 24, was assigned to TECHNOGYM S.P.A. (Cesena, Italy).

"Representative of a user's interaction with a surface of physical exercise of a treadmill and treadmill thereof" was invented by Enrico Vannoni (Cesena, Italy), Luca Bandini (Cesena, Italy), Luca Zoffoli (Cesena, Italy) and Alessandro Del Monaco (Cesena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining information representative of a user's interaction with a surface of physical exercise of a treadmill is provided. The method, for each sampling time instants ti, with 1greater thanigreater thanN, of a plurality of subsequent sampling time instant...