US Patent Issued to MYX FITNESS on Oct. 28 for "Music integration with fitness instruction" (Virginia, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,917, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MYX FITNESS LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Music integration with fitness instruction" was invented by Mohammed Iqbal (Arlington, Va.) and Matthew Wiant (Fairfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a fitness instruction program, e.g., video and/or audio, with licensed music. One such embodiment begins by receiving a music playlist including one or more metadata tags. The metadata tags correspond to time frames of a fitness instruction program. In turn, a music station for each time frame of the fitness instruction program is identified based on the one or more metadata tags....