US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "System and method of spatial groups in multi-user communication sessions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,853, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method of spatial groups in multi-user communication sessions" was invented by Miao Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shih-Sang Chiu (San Francisco), Connor A. Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joseph P. Cerra (San Francisco) and Willem Mattelaer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for presenting content in a three-dimensional environment by one or more electronic devices in a multi-user communication session. In some examples, a first electronic device and a second electronic device are...