ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,441, issued on April 8, was assigned to iFIT Inc. (Logan, Utah).
"Systems and methods for selectively rotationally fixing a pedaled drivetrain" was invented by David E. Wrobel (Farr West, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedaled drivetrain includes a drive mechanism, a wheel, a freewheel hub, and a locking mechanism. The wheel has a rotational axis. The freewheel hub connects the drive mechanism to the wheel, and the freewheel hub transmits torque from the drive mechanism to the wheel in a first rotational direction around the rotational axis. The locking mechanism has a locked state and an unlocked state. The locked state rotat...