ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,620, issued on March 11, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Metric-driven improvements of virtual reality experiences" was invented by Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for obtaining metrics relating to an extended reality experience and using the obtained metrics to perform remedial actions, such as managing user motion sickness, determining user performance relating to a designed game difficulty, and performing home automation are disclosed. The methods include determining a starting and ending checkpoint in an extended reality exp...