ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,277, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Head mounted display" was invented by Mayumi Nakade (Kyoto, Japan), Masuo Oku (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head mounted display includes a non-transmissive display for displaying a VR image, a camera, and a controller, the controller analyzing a captured image generated by the camera while a user is experiencing VR contents, and when it is determined from the captured image that the user is holding an information processor, causing a non-transmissive display to superimpose the VR image and an image of the infor...