ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,820, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INVENTEC APPLIANCES Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Fitness device" was invented by Che-Wei Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Hsuan Hsiao (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitness device including an exercise assembly is provided. The exercise assembly includes a first rotary motor and a linear motor. A user applies an exerted force to operate the exercise assembly according to different movement trajectories of multiple training movements, such that the exercise assembly is driven by the linear motor to move linearly along an axis, and is driven by the first rotary motor to rot...