US 12,220,612 B2
Exercise mat and methods for making an exercise mat
Colton Kai Yu, Vancouver (CA); Laura Julie Kelly, Vancouver (CA); Miguel Angel Herrera Macias, Vancouver (CA); Josh Nehru Samonte Delfin, Vancouver (CA); Kate Alexandria MacMillan, Vancouver (CA); Adrian Ka Ming Lai, Vancouver (CA); and Jemon Lin, Vancouver (CA)
Assigned to LULULEMON ATHLETICA CANADA INC., Vancouver (CA)
Filed by LULULEMON ATHLETICA CANADA INC., Vancouver (CA)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/071,342.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/285,949, filed on Dec. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0173333 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 21/4037 (2015.10) [A63B 2209/00 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An exercise mat comprising:
a top layer;
at least two textured gripping zones formed on an upper surface of the top layer, wherein the at least two textured gripping zones comprise a first textured gripping zone and a second textured gripping zone, the at least two textured gripping zones configured to provide different levels of friction when a body is in sliding contact with the at least two textured gripping zones of the upper surface of the top layer; and
a bottom layer joined to the top layer,
wherein a friction level of the first textured gripping zone in sliding contact with the body is lower than a friction level of the second textured gripping zone in sliding contact with the body, and
wherein a friction level increases gradually from the first textured gripping zone toward the second textured gripping zone.