ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,351, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Vivid Seats LLC (Chicago).

"Conferencing system for event monitoring relative to recorded event predictions" was invented by Kuo-Hsiung Wong (North Bergen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and computer program product for managing container artifacts are provided. Data associated with a posted contest is received from a database. User inputs including user predictions on the posted contest are received from devices that are communicatively coupled in a conference setting. A winning group of the posted contest is identified to receive a reward, based on a posted contest ou...