US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Virtual paper" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,664, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc..

"Virtual paper" was invented by Clement P. Boissiere (San Francisco), Samuel L. Iglesias (Palo Alto, Calif.), Timothy Robert Oriol (San Jose, Calif.) and Adam Michael O'Hern (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method of intermingling stereoscopic and conforming virtual content to a bounded surface is performed at a device that includes one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and one or more displays. The method includes displaying a bounded surface within a native user computer-generated reality (CGR) environment, wherein the bounded surface ...