ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,787, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distance-based vertical misalignment correction" was invented by Michaela Porubanova (Seattle), Bjorn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp (Seattle) and Jacob Elliott Hadnett-Hunter (Ely, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for correcting vertical misalignment in a binocular display system comprises receiving a signal from a misalignment detection system comprising information related to vertical misalignment between a left eye display and a right eye display of the binocular display system. Image content displayed via the binocular d...