US Patent Issued to Tonal Systems on Sept. 8 for "Exercise machine enhancements" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,309, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Tonal Systems Inc. (San Francisco).

"Exercise machine enhancements" was invented by Michael Valente (San Francisco) and Aly E. Orady (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exercise machine includes a tension generating device, a translatable arm mount coupled to the tension generating device, an arm coupled to the translatable arm mount, a cable coupled to the tension generating device via the arm, and a track for the translatable arm mount to slide along one dimension of translation, the track being rotatable horizontally, the arm being capable of being stowed by pivoting the arm ver...