ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,258, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wearable computer with fitness machine connectivity for improved activity monitoring" was invented by Jay Blahnik (Venice, Calif.), Meghna Lav (San Francisco), Aidan O'Loan (Pacifica, Calif.), Jorge Morinigo (San Jose, Calif.), Gordon Scott (Cupertino, Calif.), Siji Rachel Tom (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kevin Sheridan (Menlo Park, Calif.), Craig Dooley (Los Gatos, Calif.), Chen Ganir (San Jose, Calif.), Catherine B. B. Morrison (San Francisco) and Kevin M. Lynch (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a calibration factor is described. In...