ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,230, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating stereoscopic, augmented, and virtual reality images" was invented by Thierry Coup (Orlando, Fla.), Brian McQuillian (Orlando, Fla.) and Justin Schwartz (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ride system includes eyewear configured to be worn by a user. The eyewear includes a display having a stereoscopic feature configured to permit viewing of externally projected stereoscopically displayed images. The ride system includes a computer graphics generation system communicatively coupled to the eyewear...