US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for smart placement of virtual objects" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,507, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for smart placement of virtual objects" was invented by Brian E. Goldberg (Raleigh, N.C.), Blade E. Chapman (Cary, N.C.) and Ken T. Loh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, an electronic device displays virtual objects in a three-dimensional extended reality ("XR") environment with automatically determined location(s) and/or orientation(s). In some aspects, the electronic device receives an input corresponding to a request to display the virtual objects in the XR environment. In some aspects, in response to the in...