ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,047, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Immersive virtual display" was invented by Mark B. Rober (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sawyer I. Cohen (Menlo Park, Calif.), Daniel Kurz (San Francisco), Tobias Holl (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin B. Lyon (Saratoga, Calif.), Peter Georg Meier (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jeffrey M. Riepling (Clayton, Calif.) and Holly Gerhard (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VR system for vehicles that may implement methods that address problems with vehicles in motion that may result in motion sickness for passengers. The VR system may provide virtual views that match visual cue...