ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,991, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Local interaction systems and methods" was invented by Wei Cheng Yeh (Orlando, Fla.) and Travis Jon Cossairt (Celebration, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interaction point receives an interaction with a wearable device, wherein the interaction includes a data transmission between the wearable device and the first interaction point indicating that a user has interacted with the first interaction point. The interaction point locally processes the interaction between the wearable device and the first interaction point. Further, the inte...