ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,190, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dark Arcade Theater LLC (Studio City, Calif.).

"Method for simultaneously sending different media inputs to different users" was invented by Samuel Schectman (Northridge, Calif.), Tanner Boyajian (Newbury Park, Calif.), Hunter Boyajian (Simi Valley, Calif.), Chase Boyajian (Phoenix), Cliff Elion (Westlake Village, Calif.) and Jimmy Huey (Marrakesh, Morocco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for synchronized playback of different audio inputs to different players includes accessing a script by an engine, wherein the script includes locations of media files associated with charact...