ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,729, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to InnateVR LLC (Lake Orion, Mich.).

"Virtual reality simulation generation and rendering for substance use disorder healthcare treatment" was invented by Jacob Ziemba (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Paul Ziemba (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual reality substance abuse treatment simulation is generated using input specific to a patient. The input indicates a type of substance used by the patient and one or more triggers for inducing substance use of that type of substance by the patient. At a computing device with which a virtual reality headset worn by the patient is in communic...