ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,999, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for inspecting an amusement park attraction system" was invented by Robert Michael Jordan (Orlando, Fla.), Paige Lynette Reiter (Utica, Mich.), Patrick John Goergen (Orlando, Fla.), Thomas Owen Williams (Orlando, Fla.), Sarah Anne Kelley (Orlando, Fla.), Daniel Matthew Freedman (Orlando, Fla.) and Jacob David Allinson (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection vehicle for an attraction system of an amusement park includes one or more bogies configured to engage with a path of the attraction system, a sens...