ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,316, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DRAX INC. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Exercise equipment management method and device thereof" was invented by Seon Kyung Yoo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Sang Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an exercise management method and server thereof. The exercise management method includes providing a notification that an exercise mode is set with respect to a first exercise machine from among a plurality of exercise machines and setting a second exercise machine arranged within a predetermined distance from the first exercise machine from among the plurality of e...