2012 Billboard Music Awards

With pop-punk hooks, fist pumps aplenty and some fancy footwork, Patent Pending, an impossibly high energy "rag-tag group-a jerks" from Long Island, NY, earned a golden ticket to perform at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday (May 20) after besting five other acts to win the Battle of the Bands showdown.

"Naturally these are pain tears," beamed Patent Pending's super-affable frontman Joe Ragosta following his band's stage-shaking performance, which included a short dance routine since no boy-bands were in the competition.