ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,221, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SULTAN VENTURES LLC (Honolulu).

"Systems and networks for enabling exercise equipment to communicate with a network" was invented by Tarik Sultan (Honolulu) and Omar Sultan (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for enabling exercise by a user. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a communication unit, a user interface unit, and a processor. The processor may receive user identification data from the user via the user interface unit and retrieve data based on the user identification data from an electronic data store. The processor may ...