ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,127, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Pulley-based adjustable strap design for virtual-reality headset" was invented by Simon Morris Shand Weiss (Seattle), Christina Yee (Redmond, Wash.), Robert Coleman Skelton (Woodinville, Wash.) and Ashvath Sharma (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a head-wearable device. The head-wearable device can include a display, a retractable side strap, and a housing. The housing includes an anchor point, an adjustment mechanism configured to change an exposed length of the retractable side strap,...