ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,744, issued on May 20, was assigned to PEGATRON Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Treadmill and exercise accident detection method thereof" was invented by Chien-Kun Chiu (Taipei, Taiwan), Jia-Ming Yang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Chang Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Ban-Chwen Hsi (Taipei, Taiwan), Yang-Ching Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Yu Kao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treadmill and an exercise accident detection method thereof are provided. The treadmill includes a treadmill body, an inertial sensor, and a processor. The inertial sensor is mounted on the treadmill body and continuously senses multiple sensed values while a tre...