US Patent Issued to Tesla Laboratories on March 18 for "System and method for using a mobile device as an input device for surveys at a live event" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,282, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tesla Laboratories LLC (Jackson, Wyo.).

"System and method for using a mobile device as an input device for surveys at a live event" was invented by Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp a...