ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,475, issued on May 13, was assigned to Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

"Automated queue shutdown for efficient resource management" was invented by Justin Manteck (Elgin, Ill.) and Praveena Subrahmanyam (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to an access-right management system configured to efficiently manage multiple digital queues that store access-right requests to a resource. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods that dynamically and automatically terminate digital queues in response to certain data signals, thereby improving...