ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,611, issued on July 1, was assigned to Equip Products Inc. (Saint Jacob, Ill.).

"Control panel mount for exercise machine" was invented by Mark Harris (Saint Jacob, Ill.) and Devin Pace (Manassas, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control panel mount for an exercise machine has an equipment mounting plate, an intermediate plate and a control panel mounting plate. The equipment mounting plate is adapted and configured to be mounted to the exercise machine. The control panel mounting plate is adapted and configured to be mounted to a control panel of the exercise machine. The equipment mounting plate is hingedly connected to the inte...