ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,041, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with virtual reality environments" was invented by Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Jeffrey M. Faulkner (Sisters, Ore.), Wesley M. Holder (Union City, Calif.), Giancarlo Yerkes (San Francisco), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays, in a simulated three-dimensional space, an object with a user interface displayed at a pose corresponding to a pose of the object in the simulated space, t...