ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,382, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ZOLL MEDICAL Corp. (Chelmsford, Mass.).

"System and method for generating a virtual reality interface for displaying patient health data" was invented by Christopher M. Varga (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Terry Blansfield (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system generates a three dimensional virtual space that includes an object representation of at least a portion of a human body and a first three-dimensional cylindrical surface floating within the three-dimensional space, wherein the first three-dimensional cylindrical surface includes a two-dimensional data area for a...