US Patent Issued to Universal City Studios on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for providing a show effect using a detectable marker" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,557, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing a show effect using a detectable marker" was invented by Daniel Matthew Freedman (Ocoee, Fla.), Sarah Anne Kelley (Orlando, Fla.), Brian Birney McQuillian (Orlando, Fla.) and David Gerard Majdali (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A show effect system may include an applicator configured to apply a detectable marker, a camera configured to generate image data representative of an environment with the detectable marker, and a control system communicatively coupled to the camera and comprising a pro...