ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,897, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zenni Optical Inc. (Novato, Calif.).

"Astigmatism-driven media content compensation" was invented by Steven Lee (Barrington, Ill.), Julia Zhen (Novato, Calif.), ChyrSong Ting (Novato, Calif.), Matthew James Golino (Brookhaven, Ga.), Justin Paul Dempsey (Ottawa) and Jeffrey Joseph Fillingham (Dartmouth, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to media content compensation at an electronic device having a head-mounted display (HMD). The electronic device obtains the media content to be rendered on the HMD and astigmatism measures of two eyes of a user associated with the ...