ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,270, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Portal view for content items" was invented by Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Timothy T. Chong (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Timothy R. Pease (Emerald Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide an XR environment that depicts an environment with a viewing portal for viewing an added content item that is positioned behind the viewing portal. Some implementations determine a first position for a viewing portal within a 3D coordinate system corresponding to an environment, det...