ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,882, issued on March 4, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Program products, methods, and systems for providing location-aware fitness monitoring services" was invented by Jon H. Werner (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Program products, methods, and systems for providing location-aware fitness monitoring services are disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method of displaying a route traversed by an athlete equipped with a location-aware portable fitness monitoring device includes the steps of (a) receiving data describing a plurality of satellite navigational system waypoints that are...