US Patent Issued to Wattbike IP on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring user effectiveness during operation of an exercise machine" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,594, issued on July 1, was assigned to Wattbike IP Ltd. (Nottingham, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring user effectiveness during operation of an exercise machine" was invented by Barney Wainwright (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring user effectiveness during cyclic operation of an exercise machine (10) having a pair of human limb-operable drive members (31,32) coupled for cyclic movement. The method comprises the steps of: (i) measuring and monitoring the drive force applied to the drive members (31,32) during cyclic movement of the drive members (31,32) and generating on...