ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,815, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for authorizing a secure operation" was invented by Tomislav Suchan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jay Moon (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Vitalii Kramar (Woodinville, Calif.), Gianpaolo Fasoli (Burlingame, Calif.), Anton K. Diederich (Mountain View, Calif.), Luojie Xiang (San Jose, Calif.), Lucie Kucerova (Zdice, Czech Republic) and Martin Haller (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a change in a current viewpoint of a user is detected while a three-dimensional envir...