ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,077, issued on April 8, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Tracking performance evaluation method and host" was invented by Nien Hsin Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Wen Ting Lo (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a tracking performance evaluation method and a host. The method includes: establishing a virtual environment; obtaining a tracking result of a virtual tracking device executing a tracking function in the virtual environment; and providing a tracking performance evaluation result for the virtual environment based on the tracking result."

The patent was filed on Jan. 3, ...