ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,260, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Peloton Interactive Inc. (New York).

"Exercise machine controls" was invented by Joseph Intonato (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Betina Evancha (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing a first video file to a plurality of exercise machines, the first video file including content associated with an exercise class. The method also includes receiving user data from the plurality of exercise machines, the user data including respective settings associated with a common performance metric. In such a method, the respective settings are used on the plurality of exercise machines d...