ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,104, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TECHNOGYM S.P.A. (Cesena, Italy).

"Method for managing the use of an exercise machine by multiple users for performing physical exercises and exercise machine implementing such a method" was invented by Marcello Tana (Cesena, Italy), Massimo Baldazzi (Cesena, Italy), Mattia Generali (Cesena, Italy), Stefano Santilli (Cesena, Italy), Andrea Budelacci (Cesena, Italy), Mauro Fabbri (Cesena, Italy) and Enrico Guidi (Cesena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing the use of an exercise machine by multiple users for performing physical exercises involves obtaining, following an auth...