ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,614, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC (Universal City, Calif.).
"System and method for amusement attraction interference detection" was invented by Gregory Shellman Hall (Orlando, Fla.), Shelby Nicole Honea (Orlando, Fla.), Andrew Carbonar (Orlando, Fla.), Gregory Paul Habiak (Orlando, Fla.) and Jose Andres Reyna Perez (Oviedo, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amusement park attraction system includes one or more travel paths configured to guide one or more ride vehicle assemblies thereon. The amusement park attraction system also includes an interference detection assembly comprising one or more dr...