ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,377, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DRAX INC. (Anyang-si, South Korea).

"Exercise equipment device" 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: "An exercise equipment device includes an exercise device body including a load applying unit configured to add, reduce, or maintain a load according to a set exercise level, a user manipulation unit moving according to a movement of a user, and a load transmitting unit configured to transmit the load applied by the load applying unit to the user manipulation unit, a sensor configured to detect movement info...