US Patent Issued to Apple on April 14 for "Methods for depth conflict mitigation in a three-dimensional environment" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,865, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for depth conflict mitigation in a three-dimensional environment" was invented by Christopher D. McKenzie (Burlingame, Calif.), Benjamin Hylak (San Francisco), Conner J. Brooks (San Francisco), Adrian P. Lindberg (Karlstad, Sweden) and Bryce L. Schmidtchen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates depth conflict mitigation for a virtual object that is in contact with one or more physical objects in a three-dimensional environment by reducing visual prominence of one or more portions of the virtual ...