ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,160, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).
"System and method for modular ride vehicles" was invented by Patrick Devin Boyle (Orlando, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of ride vehicle modules, where each of the plurality of ride vehicle modules includes an interlock system configured to perform linking operations to join to other ride vehicle modules to form a cluster and delinking operations to separate from the other ride vehicle modules throughout a ride, control circuitry configured to control the interlock system and movement of the respective ride ...