ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,661, issued on June 3, was assigned to Tonal Systems Inc. (San Francisco).

"Exercise guidance using multi-modal data" was invented by Giuseppe Barbalinardo (Berkeley, Calif.), Joshua Ben Shapiro (Toronto), Asim Kadav (Mountain View, Calif.), Ivan Savytskyi (Mississauga, Canada), Rajiv Bhan (Mountain View, Calif.), Rustam Paringer (Samara, Russia) and Aly E. Orady (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first output is received from a first hardware optical sensor. A second output is received from a second hardware sensor. Guidance is provided for a movement via a user interface, wherein the guidance is based at least in part o...