ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,930, issued on June 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with window controls in three-dimensional environments" was invented by Matan Stauber (San Francisco), Lee S. Broughton (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays a first user interface object and a first control element with a first appearance that is associated with performing a first operation with respect to the ...