ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,678, issued on May 13, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature" was invented by Casper Wickman (Ockero, Sweden), Mattias Wikenmalm (Torslanda, Sweden), Timotei Ghiurau (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jon Seneger (Boulder Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines in relation to a road-driven vehicle, with support from a tracking system, an orientation of a head-mounted display, HMD, adapted to be worn by an...