US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Methods for depth conflict mitigation in a three-dimensional environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,660, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for depth conflict mitigation in a three-dimensional environment" was invented by Benjamin Hylak (San Francisco), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.), Christopher D. McKenzie (Burlingame, Calif.), James J. Owen (San Francisco), Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco) and Miquel Estany Rodriguez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates depth conflict mitigation for a virtual object that is in contact with one or more physical objects in a three-dimensional environment by changing visual properties...