ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,918, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Science Applications International Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for providing observation scenes corresponding to extended reality (XR) content" was invented by Andrew W. Wilson (Huntsville, Ala.) and Ari J. Hollander (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for creating an observation video are described. The observation video may comprise a viewport that moves in coordination with motion of an HMD user's head and that shows portions of VR content being output to the HMD user at different times. For each of those times, m...