ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,315, issued on March 31, was assigned to HVRT CORP (Orofino, Idaho).

"Virtual and augmented reality shooting systems and methods" was invented by Nathaniel P. Gallery (Lewiston, Idaho), Andrew McCormick (Seattle), Alex Scott Pickett (Orofino, Idaho) and Klaus Johnson (Orofino, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for training, maintaining and using skills for shooting a target with a projectile. More particularly, the invention relates to virtual and/or augmented reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and consensual reality systems and methods to train and maintain shooting skills in milita...