US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 3 for "System and method of three-dimensional placement and refinement in multi-user communication sessions" (California, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,280, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method of three-dimensional placement and refinement in multi-user communication sessions" was invented by Connor A. Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin H. Boesel (Cornelius, N.C.), David H. Huang (San Mateo, Calif.), Jeffrey S. Norris (Saratoga, Calif.), Jonathan Perron (Felton, Calif.), Jordan A. Cazamias (Conroe, Texas), Miao Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shih-Sang Chiu (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the disclosure are directed to methods for spatial placement of avatars in a communication session. In some examples,...