ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,405, issued on July 29.
"Exercise apparatus and method of physiotherapy" was invented by Paul Steven Schranz (Bowen Island, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method of physiotherapy includes providing a lever arm rotatable about a vertical axis over an exercise equipment, a user engaging the lever arm while using the exercise equipment, and loading muscles of a user with a torque acting substantially about the vertical axis from the user rotating the lever arm about the vertical axis. The lever arm can be biased in a clockwise direction or a counter-clockwise direction relative to the lever arm. The vertical axis can ...