ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,876, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tonal Systems Inc. (San Francisco).
"Exercise machine struggle detection" was invented by Brandt Belson (San Francisco), Pavel Katkov (Samara, Russia), Egor Ponomarev (Samara, Russia) and Giuseppe Barbalinardo (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performance information associated with a previous repetition of an exercise movement is received. Performance of one or more upcoming repetitions is predicted, based at least in part on the performance information associated with the previous repetition of the exercise movement. A failure classification of whether the one or more upcoming ...