ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,373, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with window controls in three-dimensional environments" was invented by Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Matan Stauber (San Francisco) and Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system, while displaying, a first object at a first position in a first view of a three-dimensional environment, displays a first set of one or more control objects, wherein a respective control object of the first set of one or more control objects corresponds to a respective operati...