US Patent Issued to Universal City Studios on June 17 for "Facial activity detection for virtual reality systems and methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,640, issued on June 17, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Facial activity detection for virtual reality systems and methods" was invented by Robert Michael Jordan (Orlando, Fla.), Mark James Traynor (Orlando, Fla.) and Patrick John Goergen (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a virtual reality ride system includes a display to present virtual reality image content to a first rider, an audio sensor to capture audio data associated with a second rider, and an image sensor to capture image data associated with the second rider. The virtual reality ride system also includes a...