ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,055, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Visual effects and content enhancements for VR" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for creating enhanced VR content. The system generates, for display on a user device, a view of a virtual 3D environment. The system receives, from the user device, a request to capture the view of the virtual 3D environment. The system accesses data used to generate the view of the virtual 3D environment for display on the user device. ...