ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,849, issued on July 28, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Reducing latency in head-mounted display for the remote operation of machinery" was invented by Jonathan Westin Sykes (Gower, Mo.) and Timothy J. Mourlam (Shawnee, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media, systems, and methods for reducing latency in a head-mounted display for the remote operation of machinery. A remote camera sends raw video to a graphics processing unit which processes the video and transmits the updated video to a head-mounted display with limited latency such that the control of remote devices may be improved. The image may be sph...