ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,651, issued on March 18, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).
"Object orientation detection system" was invented by Yu-Jen Lin (Orlando, Fla.) and Anthony Melo (Orlando, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ride system includes one or more sensors and a controller. The controller receives, from the one or more sensors, position data indicative of the position of a body and/or face of guest on the ride. Using the position data, the one or more controllers, determine a face direction, face rotation, or both of the guest, independent of sensor observations of the face direction and rotation. One or more...