US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented the Administrator of NASA on Aug. 26 for "Performance optimization implementing virtual element perturbation" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,557, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to United States of America as represented the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Performance optimization implementing virtual element perturbation" was invented by Chad L. Stephens (Poquoson, Va.) and Alan T. Pope (Poquoson, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing virtual reality environments that may be modified based on physiological measurements of a user. A user may be provided a virtual reality environment to perform a task, such as putting a ball into a hole or driving a vehicle. The virtual reality environment may comprise all or portions of th...