US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "Methods of interacting with content in a virtual environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,877, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods of interacting with content in a virtual environment" was invented by Jonathan Ravasz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shih-Sang Chiu (San Francisco), Christopher D. McKenzie (Burlingame, Calif.), Nicholas W. Henderson (San Carlos, Calif.) and James M. Dessero (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computer systems switch a representation of a first content item at a docked position in an environment with a representation of a second content item in the environment in response to input, switch from displaying a first environment to display...