ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,311, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DP Technologies Inc. (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

"Monitoring exercise surface system" was invented by Philippe Richard Kahn (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Sonia Lee Kahn (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Arthur Kinsolving (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Mark Andrew Christensen (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An under-mat to be positioned under an exercise mat, to make the exercise mat a smart mat. The under-mat including a plurality of sensors to monitor a user's health data, while the user is performing exercises, and to provide data to the user."

The patent was filed on Sept. 26, 2022, under Application...