US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Methods for generating virtual objects and sound" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,492, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for generating virtual objects and sound" was invented by Guillaume Couche (London), Jonny Yeo (London) and Vitaliy Tyzhnevyy (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic devices can be used to generate virtual objects. In some examples, to reduce undesirable artifacts (e.g., flaws due to handshaking and/or hesitations) from occurring in the virtual object, a virtual pointer element is offset from a portion of an input device and is used to generate the virtual object in a three-dimensional environment. In some examples, to improve the visual charac...