ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,378, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to F&P TECH FITNESS Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Exercise device" was invented by Anthony John Belsham (Hamilton, New Zealand) and Ty Elgin Andrews (Hamilton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal exercise device comprises a user interface to be moved by a user in a 3-dimensional space when using the device, a resistance mechanism to generate a force, a cable coupled between the user interface and the resistance mechanism to transmit the force from the resistance mechanism to the user interface, one or more sensors configured to detect movement of the user in the 3-dimensional sp...