ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,014, issued on June 3, was assigned to TPHOENIXSMR LLC (Southfield, Mich.).

"Interactive virtual reality broadcast systems and methods" was invented by Scott Reilly (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a virtual reality (VR) broadcast of a VR performance is provided. The VR broadcast is received by audience devices that receive audience feedback data. A VR system controller synchronizes the audience feedback data with the VR broadcast to generate synchronized audience feedback data in real time and outputs the VR broadcast with the synchronized audience feedback data to the audience devices. The VR...