US Patent Issued to Universal City Studios on July 14 for "Systems and methods for controlling special effects of reactive show action equipment" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,706, issued on July 14, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling special effects of reactive show action equipment" was invented by Eric Rae Parr (Orlando, Fla.), Gary Lynn Blumenstein Jr. (Apopka, Fla.), Kimberley Marie Gritzer (Orlando, Fla.), Keith Michael McVeen (Winter Garden, Fla.), Elias Varon (Orlando, Fla.), Sarah Anne Kelley (Orlando, Fla.) and Eric Allan Vance (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactive show action equipment system is disclosed, including show action equipment having one or more actuators and a special effects system coupled to t...