ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,042, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with three-dimensional environments" was invented by Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Jonathan Ravasz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hugo D. Verweij (Portola Valley, Calif.), Hana Z. Wang (Novato, Calif.) and Kirsty Keatch (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system detects an input to invoke a home menu user interface. In response to detecting the input, the computer system displays, via one or more display generation components, the home menu user interface in a three-dimensi...