ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,388, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ATTRACTION TECHNOLOGY (Staffordshire, Great Britain).
"Virtual queuing system" was invented by Mark Locker (Staffordshire, Great Britain), Peter O'Dare (Staffordshire, Great Britain) and Robert Pugh (Staffordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a virtual queuing system for managing a virtual queue for a resource, the system comprising a plurality of user devices and a virtual queue management unit, where each user device is configured to: allow a user to join a virtual queue for the resource by creating a virtual queue entry associated with the user devic...