US Patent Issued to Apple on April 14 for "Systems and methods of updating a manner of display of three-dimensional objects" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,108, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of updating a manner of display of three-dimensional objects" was invented by Gregory Lutter (Boulder Creek, Calif.), Peter Burgner (Venice, Calif.), Manuel C. Clement (Felton, Calif.), In Young Yang (Kirkland, Wash.), Thomas G. Salter (San Francisco), Alesha Unpingco (Milpitas, Calif.) and Lee Sparks (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for minimizing display of an object from a maximized state to a minimized state in a three-dimensional environment. In some...