ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,896, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Head-mounted display alignment assessment" was invented by Rayna Demaster-Smith (Kirkland, Wash.), Dmitriy Churin (Redmond, Wash.), James Peele Terrell Jr. (Bellvue, Colo.), Michael Scott Sutton (Arvada, Colo.) and Parry Byron Johnson (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted display system includes a left display assembly configured to provide left-side display light. A first left inertial measurement unit (IMU) is configured to measure an orientation of the left display assembly. A right display assembly is configured to ...