US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "Obstructed objects in a three-dimensional environment" (California, New York, Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,890, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Obstructed objects in a three-dimensional environment" was invented by Benjamin H. Boesel (Jackson, Wyo.), Shih-Sang Chiu (San Francisco), Katherine W. Kolombatovich (New York), Garrett L. Weinberg (Capitola, Calif.), Benjamin Hylak (San Francisco), Ieyuki Kawashima (Pleasanton, Calif.), Lee S. Broughton (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Giancarlo Yerkes (San Francisco) and Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system reduces a visual prominence of virtual content relative to a three-dimensional environment. In...