ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,726, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tonal Systems Inc. (San Francisco).
"Remote group workouts" was invented by Scott Matthew White (San Francisco), Michael Philip Hand (San Francisco) and Denis Bezrukov (Samara, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of ready signals is received from a plurality of designated strength training devices. An initial synchronization signal is transmitted to the plurality of designated strength training devices such that the plurality of designated strength training devices begin a workout phase in a synchronized manner and then proceed with the workout phase asynchronously. A plurality of s...