ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,971, issued on June 10, was assigned to Bansen Labs LLC (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for facilitating adaptive recentering in virtual reality environments" was invented by Ray Abel (Pittsburgh) and Qiqing Zhang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a system and method for facilitating adaptive recentering in virtual reality ("VR") environments capable of autonomously monitoring a user's viewpoint orientation within a VR environment using integrate sensors to detect deviations exceeding a predetermined threshold angle from a central reference point. The system employs an algorithm to evaluate...