ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,111, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Computer-based systems and platforms for participant engagement and continuity during live events and methods of use thereof" was invented by Bryan Tamayo (Allen, Texas), Unique Carey (McLean, Va.) and Catherine Lovett (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving event data from a first computing device of a first user of a plurality of users; transmitting the event data to an application executing on a plurality of second computing devices of a plurality of second users; receiving an audio data from an audio device at the live e...