US Patent Issued to adidas on Sept. 16 for "Fitness monitoring methods, systems, and program products, and applications thereof" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,832, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Fitness monitoring methods, systems, and program products, and applications thereof" was invented by Maya Ann Powch (Portland, Ore.), Stephen John Black (Portland, Ore.), Tony Hope (Weisendorf, Germany) and Christian Dibenedetto (North Plains, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fitness monitoring methods, systems, and program products are disclosed. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for providing a new workout for an athlete utilizing a fitness monitoring service includes the steps of granting an athlete access to an account of the fitness ...