US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Showing context in a communication session" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,956, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Showing context in a communication session" was invented by Shih-Sang Chiu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), David H. Huang (San Mateo, Calif.), Jonathan Perron (Felton, Calif.) and Jordan A. Cazamias (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations provide a representation of at least a portion of a user within a three-dimensional (3D) environment other than the user's physical environment. Based on detecting a condition, a representation of another object of the user's physical environment is shown to provide context....