US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Techniques for three-dimensional environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,459, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for three-dimensional environments" was invented by Andrew P. Richardson (San Francisco), Christian A. Niles (Cupertino, Calif.), Collin R. Russell (Cupertino, Calif.), Abhinay Ashutosh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mark A. Ebbole (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some techniques are described herein for integrating a 2D framework with a 3D framework. Such techniques use a concept referred to as a hidden entity to link the two frameworks together. Other techniques are described herein for translating gestures from a first type to a second type i...