ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,493, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Systems and method for segmentation of movement repetitions and extraction of performance metrics" was invented by Santiago Ortega Avila (Milpitas, Calif.), Cathy Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Marc Estruch Tena (San Jose, Calif.), John Novak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tara Sriram (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vishnu Venugopal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mohammad J. Abu Saude (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Imran Mohammed (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes, by an electronic device, receiving a digital input indicating a ...