ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,844, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

"Partial uses of clustered access rights" was invented by Dennis Denker (Phoenix), Shigeki Hirose (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jonathan Scott Wall (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for communication networks and network operations for processing partial uses of clustered access rights. The communication networks may include channels such as short-range communication channels, such as Bluetooth, BTLE, and/or near-field communication (NFC) channels."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2022, under Applicat...