ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,508, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Display system and method" was invented by Maria Chiara Monti (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for obtaining content for display to a user of a head-mountable display device, HMD, the system comprising one or more audio detection units operable to capture audio in the environment of the user, a motion prediction unit operable to predict motion of the HMD in dependence upon the captured audio, and a content obtaining unit operable to obtain content for display in dependence upon the predicted motion of the HMD."

The patent was filed on ...