ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,217, issued on May 13, was assigned to HOIST FITNESS SYSTEMS INC. (Poway, Calif.).
"Dual action weightlifting machine with selectorized resistance" was invented by Jeffrey O. Meredith (Del Mar, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exercise machine, having: (a) a frame; (b) a pair of weight stacks connected to opposite sides of the frame; (c) a pair of vertically moveable pulley carriages connected to front portions of the frame; (d) a lifting bar assembly connected to a rear portion of the frame; (e) a pair of arm cables, wherein each of the arm cables are connected to one of the pulley carriages and pass around a first series of...