US Patent Issued to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS on July 29 for "Surface-mounted vehicle having a rail coupling system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,457, issued on July 29, was assigned to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Surface-mounted vehicle having a rail coupling system" was invented by Daniel Freedman (Ocoee, Fla.), Dustin W. Fike (Orlando, Fla.), Felix M. Chao Rodriguez (Orlando, Fla.), William Miller (Orlando, Fla.) and Dwain South (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-mounted vehicle includes a body and a mounting system configured to couple the surface-mounted vehicle to a surface. The surface-mounted vehicle also includes a propulsion system configured to move the surface-mounted vehicle along the surface. In addition, the surface...