ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,010, issued on Aug. 5.
"Indirect bio-feedback health and fitness management system" was invented by Natan Lavi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Dan Ariely (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health and fitness management system that acquires a health indicating measurement using a health indicating measurement device that does not disclose the actual measurement to the individual. The data is transferred to a monitoring system in a format that does not disclose the actual value of the measurement to the individual. The monitoring system interprets the received input and provides useful feedback to a third party."
The patent was fil...