US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 15 for "Foot-pedaling exercise system, control method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,912, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Foot-pedaling exercise system, control method, and program" was invented by Eisuke Aoki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foot-pedaling exercise system assists workers, the foot-pedaling exercise system including an integrated pedal unit, rotatably supported by an equipment main body. The system includes a sitting part that performs yaw and roll turns through a turn actuator. When an exercise monitoring sensor detects inactivity, the controller initiates control to create a kinematic chain that encourages natural exercise motions of the user."...