ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,276, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Accesso Technology Group Plc (Twyford, Great Britain).

"Methods of estimating a throughput of a resource, a length of a queue associated with the resource and/or a wait time of the queue" was invented by Christopher Simon Galley (Twyford, Great Britain), Christopher Simon Peter Barnaby (Twyford, Great Britain), Ian Michael Francis (Twyford, Great Britain), Benjamin Keeling Mathews (Orlando, Fla.) and Christopher Andrew Ella (Twyford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure describe estimating a throughput of a resource within a venue. A server may determine an opera...