ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,763, issued on May 27, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Immersive vehicle component configuration and operation" was invented by Gerrit Guterbock (Wolfsburg, Germany), Christian Kern (Braunschweig, Germany), Vince Tulit (San Mateo, Calif.) and Enes Olcay (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system, including one or more vehicle immersion components, operatively coupled to a vehicle processing apparatus, each of the one or more vehicle immersion components configured to execute an immersive effect in the vehicle. A vehicle component, operatively coupled to the vehicle processing apparatus,...