ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,413, issued on March 11, was assigned to PELOTON INTERACTIVE INC. (New York).

"Exercise system and method" was invented by John Paul Foley (New York), Hans Schlichting Woolley (West Hollywood, Calif.), Jason Poure (Hastings on Hudson, N.Y.) and Joseph Intonato (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying archived exercise classes comprising displaying information about archived exercise classes that can be accessed by a first user via a computer network on a display screen at a first location, wherein the first user can select among a plurality of archived classes, outputting digital video and audio content...