ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,950, issued on Feb. 10.

"Secure ticketing platform and related methods" was invented by Frank Joseph Phillips (Cincinnati), Elijah Jackson Sirota (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Blaine Andrew Ledbetter (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to improved secure ticketing methods, APIs, and platforms that address duplicative fraudulent tickets and concurrently afford dynamic features that can offer restrictions and benefits to the secure tickets. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the secure ticketing methods, APIs and platforms are scalable, consistent, and efficient. Moreover, the secure ti...