ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,661, issued on July 14, was assigned to Woodway USA Inc. (Waukesha, Wis.).
"Systems and methods for multi-user operation on a piece of exercise equipment" was invented by Douglas G. Bayerlein (Waukesha, Wis.), Eric Weber (Waukesha, Wis.), Vance E. Emons (Waukesha, Wis.), Jacob Hilsabeck (Shorewood, Wis.) and Scott D. Hoerig (Waukesha, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exercise and/or therapeutic machine includes a controller. The controller is configured to: receive at least one input indicating a number of users of the exercise and/or therapeutic machine for a multi-user routine and a number of segments of the multi-user routin...