ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,840, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SWING FITNESS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Exercise apparatus" was invented by Thomas Bowden-Eyre (Cambridge, Great Britain) and William Thomas Edward Briggs (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exercise apparatus comprises a support element (4) for physically supporting a user (6), a container (10) having a storage volume, and one or more items of exercise equipment (12) configured to be stored in the storage volume. The container includes an access opening (14) providing access to the storage volume, a closure element (16) and a releasable lock (18) for locking the...