ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,899, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Tracking device, head-mounted display device, and virtual reality system" was invented by Sheng-Hui Tao (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking device, communicatively connected to a HMD device (head-mounted display device), is disclosed. The tracking device includes a client processor and a client memory. The client processor is configured to obtain an initial map from the HMD device. The client memory is configured to store the initial map. The client processor is further configured to update the initial map stored in the client memory to gener...