US Patent Issued to Universal City Studios on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for a smart virtual queue" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,972, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for a smart virtual queue" was invented by Nicholas Linguanti (Orlando, Fla.), Casey Barreto (Orlando, Fla.), William Austin Kelly (Orlando, Fla.), Kyle P. Hanley (Orlando, Fla.) and Mark James Traynor (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a virtual queue controller configured to receive an indication of a reduced capacity event from an amusement park attraction, determine a reduction in capacity of the attraction, identify each guest having a return time in a virtual queue of the attraction that i...