ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,827, issued on May 20, was assigned to Accesso Technology Group PLC (Twyford, Great Britain).
"Queuing system" was invented by Christopher Simon Galley (Twyford, Great Britain), Christopher Simon Peter Barnaby (Twyford, Great Britain) and Ian Michael Francis (Twyford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for controlling access to one or more attractions is achieved using a number of access keys, each being issued to one or more users. An electronic queue management part manages a virtual queue in respect of each attraction and receives electronic requests for attraction access, each request relating to an access k...