Patents Examined by Nyca T Nguyen
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Patent number: 12377334Abstract: A climbing wall assembly may include a first wall portion, a second wall portion, and a movable wall panel, the front faces of which provide a substantially continuous climbing surface. The movable wall panel has a first side hingedly connected to the first wall portion and a second side slideably and hingedly connected to the second wall portion. The assembly further includes one or more actuators configured to change an angle of the first wall portion, the second wall portion, or both. By changing the relative angle between the first and second wall portions, the movable panel may be brought between closed and open positions to provide the climbing wall with different climbing challenges.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Everlast Climbing Industries, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Sweeney, Timothy S. Sudeith, Sarah Mae Howard, Nicolas Oklobzija
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Patent number: 12370396Abstract: An exercise device has a generally spheroidal body having a top, a bottom, a first side, a second side, a front, and a rear, a first handle extending outwardly from the first side, the first handle comprising a grip spaced from the body; and a second handle extending outwardly from the second side, the second handle comprising a grip spaced from the body, wherein the first and second handles extend upwardly towards the top of said body at an angle relative to a horizontal plane through the body. Exercise devices of different masses may have different sized bodies, but have approximately the same total width from handle to handle.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: KMNCE LLCInventors: Tyler Jones, Justin Jones, Vincent Pangallo
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Patent number: 12357862Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a balance beam. The balance beam may include a beam body and one or more support assemblies configured to support the beam body. The beam body may include one or more chambers. Each of the one or more chambers may be configured to accommodate at least a portion of one of the one or more support assemblies. Each of the one or more support assemblies may be connected with the beam body via a first connection. The support assembly may be configured to rotate, through the first connection, along a first rotation axis for moving into the one or more chambers.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Inventor: Yinglin Han
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Patent number: 12346146Abstract: A method for counting spatially arranged, moving markers, the markers being arranged to move along a movement axis parallel to a sensors axis of sensors for detecting the markers during movement. The number of sensors is lower than the number of markers in order to decrease the cost of the sensors system. The present system supports stacks having objects, associated with the markers, of different sizes (such as weight plates of increasing height) or different weights.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: HEAVY KINEMATIC MACHINES SP. ZO. O.Inventors: Mateusz Semegen, Rafal Kasperowicz, Maciej Rot, Kacper Ostrowski
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Patent number: 12337208Abstract: A fitness machine operable by a user. The fitness machine includes a base that extends in a length direction, a width direction, and a height direction that are perpendicular to each other. A mobile portion is configured to support the user during operation of the fitness machine. A resilient body is configured to provide a resistance against the mobile portion moving towards the base in the height direction. A frame is moveable in the length direction relative to the base to adjust the resistance provided by the resilient body. A fastener assembly moveably couples the frame to the base, where the fastener assembly is configured to expand in the width direction to prevent the frame from moving in the width direction relative to the base during operation of the fitness machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Life Fitness, LLCInventors: Dylan McGregor, Peter Kanakaris
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Patent number: 12330018Abstract: An exercise system includes a rowing exercise device and a chair. The rowing exercise device achieves a lower limb exercise which includes repetitive extension and flexion of at least a knee joint and a hip joint. The chair is the one on which a user who performs the lower limb exercise using the lower limb exercise device sits. The chair includes a seat on which the user sits and a support mechanism capable of supporting the seat in such a manner that the seat can carry out a roll oscillation. The seat carries out a roll oscillation during the lower limb exercise, which causes a motion linkage between a lower limb and a trunk.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eisuke Aoki
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Patent number: 12330019Abstract: An upper and lower body reciprocating arcing motion exercise machine with an adjustable angle user support frame, left and right lower body user support assemblies having foot platforms and shin support pads mounted on an arcing track for movement along rearward and central portions of the user support frame, and left and right upper body user supports having gripping handles mounted on pivotable levers that move in an arcing motion relative to a forward and central portion of the movable user support frame. A linkage assembly operatively connects and synchronizes the exercise motions of the upper and lower body user support assemblies. In certain embodiments, an adjustable resistance mechanism is operatively engaged with the upper and lower body user supports for providing adjustable resistance to the exercise motion of the upper and lower body user supports.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Product Design Innovations, LLCInventor: Joseph K. Ellis
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Patent number: 12324962Abstract: A method for estimating a maximum power value generatable by a user during a resistance training exercise on an exercise machine includes executing at least three resistance training exercises. The push load to be set for the third execution of the resistance training exercise depends on the comparison of the last measured power peak value with the power peak values measured during the previous executions of the resistance training exercise.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: TECHNOGYM S.P.A.Inventors: Luca Zoffoli, Silvano Zanuso
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Patent number: 12324942Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an exercise bag system for carrying a mass of sand or other granular particles that includes a bag article, a first closure system, a second closure system and a third closure system. The first closure system is at the top and proximate the opening and inside the bag article. The second closure system is at the top and located entirely on the outer surface of the first side panel. The third closure system is at the top and on a foldable panel coupled to the first side panel, such that when the first closure system and the second closure system are engaged, the third closure system is configured to be engaged to seal the bag article.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Goruck Holdings, LLCInventors: Suphun Phoeun, Jason Jerome McCarthy
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Patent number: 12324954Abstract: A seesaw exercise device includes a rigid frame that has a pair of left and right side walls; and a seesaw base that is interposed between the two side walls facing each other, wherein a central portion of a horizontal base plate of the seesaw base is pivotally supported to the two side walls of the frame by a round shaft having a diameter larger than a thickness of the base plate itself, and when the base plate is pushed down by a user, the base plate performs a seesaw motion slowly in a front-rear direction while drawing an arc along a circumferential surface of the round shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SANKEIInventors: Maika Ito, Michiyo Ito
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Patent number: 12290734Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an entertainment and leisure device and a method of installing the same. The entertainment and leisure device comprises: a bundling belt, which is fixed on a cylinder; a ribbon, which is fixed between two cylinders through two bundling belts, wherein the bundling belts are used to adjust the hanging length of the ribbon, and fixed points are marked on the ribbon; self-locking sliding buckles, wherein the upper ends of the self-locking sliding buckles penetrate through the ribbon, and the self-locking sliding buckles are distributed at a plurality of fixed points of the ribbon; a lock buckle, which penetrates through the lower end of the self-locking sliding buckle; and an interactive component, the upper end of which is hung on the lock buckle, and the lower end of which is provided with an interactive accessory for climbing and/or grabbing and/or riding.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Taizhou Sen Kang Protective Equipment FactoryInventor: Senkang Cao
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Patent number: 12285646Abstract: An adjustable dumbbell, comprising a dumbbell assembly, a dumbbell seat and dumbbell pieces, the dumbbell assembly comprises a dumbbell bar and connecting discs, which are provided with a positioning groove and a connecting block slidingly connected in the positioning groove, and the connecting disc is provided with an elastic component; the dumbbell assembly comprises a handle grip and gear blocks, and the glove and the gear block are fixed circumferentially, and the gear block has an outwardly pushing part and an inwardly shrinking part in the circumferential direction; the dumbbell piece is provided with a connecting groove, when the connecting block abuts against the shrinking part, the connecting block is separated from the connecting groove; the connecting block abuts against the pushing part, the connecting block is snapped into the connecting groove; when the connecting block abuts against the shrinking part, the connecting block is separated from the connecting groove.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Inventor: Limin Huang
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Patent number: 12280296Abstract: A hand exerciser to strengthen and promote flexibility for both extension and flexion for the fingers, thumb and hand has a body defined by a resiliently deformable first outer ring and a resiliently deformable second inner ring that is concentric with the first outer ring. Flexion exercises utilize the first outer ring while extension exercises utilize the second inner ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Inventor: Kelly Murphy
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Patent number: 12274652Abstract: An exercise device includes one or more connectors adapted to be releasably coupled to a patient support apparatus; a patient-contacting portion adapted to contact a portion of the patient's body and to be resistively moved between a first position and a second position; a first location transceiver; and a sensor adapted to automatically detect movement of the patient-contacting portion between the first and second positions. The exercise device may also include a wireless transceiver adapted to transmit movement data derived from the sensor to a recipient device. In some embodiments, the exercise device is part of a system that includes a patient support apparatus and a second location transceiver positioned thereon. The location transceivers allow a controller to determine if the exercise device is currently coupled to the patient support apparatus or not, and/or to automatically pair the exercise device to the patient support apparatus for wireless communication.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Celso Henrique Farnese Pires Pereira, Jeffrey Kennedy, Kaitlin Therese Konopacz, Heather Sirianni
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Patent number: 12268925Abstract: An exercise mat assembly for improving neck alignment includes a mat, which has a lower face that is positionable upon a substantially horizontal surface. The mat cushions a body of a user who is performing an exercise upon the mat. A pad is attached to an upper face of the mat proximate to a top end of the mat. The pad is formed so as to engage an upper portion and opposite sides of a neck of the user when the user is lying supine upon the mat. The pad thus cushions, supports, and aligns the neck of the user during performance of the exercise.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Inventor: Tegan Vasquez
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Patent number: 12268937Abstract: A split goal exercise system includes a plurality of exercise stations and a plurality of wristbands; wherein each station includes an overhead visual display configured to play a video, the video demonstrating one or more exercises performed by a fitness trainer, the one or more exercises including one or more modifications that are based on fitness level; wherein the video can be played on a mobile application to view on a mobile device; wherein the plurality of wristbands provides visual feedback to a fitness instructor, the visual feedback representing the fitness goal, fitness concern, or both of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Inventors: Nicole K. Nolan, Lawrence R. Nolan
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Patent number: 12268917Abstract: A fitness rope apparatus which includes an elongated rope body having a plurality of stopper members fixed thereon along its length and a distal end having an eye splice which forms a permanent loop. The plurality of stopper members are evenly spaced out along the length of the rope body, with each individually coupled to the rope by way of a securing member. In addition, each of the stopper members is a spherical exterior surface which provides a thicker portion relative to the rope body while not including any sharp corners or edges. In this regard, the stopper members each provide a discrete point of leverage for a user desiring to grasp the fitness rope apparatus which, in the event the user's grip weakens, does not present a surface on which a finger can get stuck or that can otherwise easily cause injury.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Inventor: Walter Fletcher
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Patent number: 12268932Abstract: An exercise apparatus for supporting a pair of feet of a user while the user moves a body of the user alternately up and down a staircase with the user's hands includes the staircase with a pair of stirrups for supporting the pair of feet of the user. The pair of stirrups are slidably alternately up and down the staircase, enabling the user to move the user's body up and down the staircase using the user's hands. The user may also perform push-ups and other exercises while supporting the user's feet on the stirrups.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Inventor: Thomas Moore
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Patent number: 12246214Abstract: A translatable carriage exercise machine comprising elongate side rails. A moveable carriage is translatable along the side rails. An upper support surface on the carriage is useable to at least partially support a user. A plurality of elastic tension members can be secured to a bottom of the moveable carriage and are fixable to a plurality of spring anchors near an end of the machine. A pair of handles under elastic tension are directed toward an end of the machine. An upright footbar can be positioned at an end of the machine. A rotational resistance mechanism is integrated in the machine comprising an elongate resistance band having an extended configuration and a retracted configuration. The rotational resistance mechanism comprises a resistor comprising a load member. A user can option to utilize one or more of the elastic tension members and/or rotational resistance mechanism during exercise on the machine.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Inventor: Brian Patrick Janowski
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Patent number: 12246212Abstract: A core bladder is disclosed. The core bladder a body, a skeletal load-support matrix, and a valve. The body defines a fluid-receiving cavity. The skeletal load-support matrix is disposed within the fluid-receiving cavity. The valve is supported by the body. The valve is configured to permit fluid communication with the fluid-receiving cavity to selectively arrange the body in one of a compact deflated state and an expanded inflated state. An exercise assembly including the core bladder is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Town Strength, LLCInventors: Karen Abrams-Harbour, Scott Davis