ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,074, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"System and method for a persistent and personalized dataset solution for improving guest interaction with an interactive area" was invented by Josiah Logan Bender (Winter Park, Fla.), Angelo Pagliuca (Orlando, Fla.) and Anthony Melo (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating user interaction with interactive areas includes a memory encoding processor-executable routines. The system also includes a processor configured to access the memory and to execute the processor-executable routines. The processor may identif...