ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,368, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Connectivity Labs Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sedentary virtual reality method and systems" was invented by Rocky Chau-Hsiung Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), Koichiro Kanda (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Yamasaki (Anaheim Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and devices for creating a sedentary virtual-reality system are provided. A user interface is provided that allows for the intuitive navigation of the sedentary virtual-reality system based on the position of the users head. The sedentary virtual-reality system can render a desktop computing environment. The user can switch the virtual-...