US Patent Issued to Universal City Studios on June 30 for "System and method for inhibiting movement of shotgun gate via computer implemented process" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,791, issued on June 30, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"System and method for inhibiting movement of shotgun gate via computer implemented process" was invented by Michael Anthony Beatrice (Orlando, Fla.), Gregory Paul Habiak (Orlando, Fla.) and David Gerard Majdali (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, apparatus, and systems for controlling movement of a shotgun gate in a ride system. A system is configured to identify one or more ride vehicles stopped at a platform, the platform including one or more shotgun gates respectively corresponding t...