ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,191, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Guangdong Coros Sports Technology Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Method and electronic device for dynamically acquiring maximal oxygen consumption" was invented by Xin Liu (Guangdong, China), Xuan Rao (Guangdong, China), Yu Tang (Guangdong, China), Muyi Huang (Guangdong, China) and Haotian Niu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamically acquiring maximal oxygen consumption includes acquiring user's age, gender, weight, resting heart rate and maximum heart rate; detecting basic heart rate data comprising a plurality of exercise heart rates and basic speed data compris...