ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,420, issued on June 2, was assigned to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Tabletop speaker system" was invented by Daniel Matthew Freedman (Orlando, Fla.), David Gerard Majdali (Orlando, Fla.) and Brian Birney McQuillian (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present systems and methods are directed to an entertainment system for an environment. The entertainment system includes a container configured to hold one or more user devices and a sensor configured to detect a presence of the one or more user devices in the container and to generate data indicative of the presence of the one or more user devices in t...