ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,230, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Head-mountable display system and methods" was invented by Calum Armstrong (London), Mark Jacobus Breugelmans (London), Maurizio Cerrato (London) and Philip Cockram (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a head-mountable display (HMD) configured to receive one or more signals via a wired connection with an external device, processing circuitry to generate an output indicative of at least one of a predicted disconnect event and a detected disconnect event for the wired connection, and control circuitry to instruct one or more oper...