ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,828, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).

"Method and system for compensating for a crash event during display of a virtual environment on a virtual reality headset" was invented by Lewis Thresh (London) and Christopher Buchanan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compensating for a crash event during display of a virtual environment on a virtual reality, VR, headset, the method comprising: receiving virtual display content representing a virtual environment, tracking the orientation of the VR headset, rendering and displaying virtual display content according to the or...