ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,680, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for correlation between rotation of a three-dimensional object and rotation of a viewpoint of a user" was invented by Gregory Lutter (Boulder Creek, Calif.) and Manuel C. Clement (Felton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an electronic device presents a computer-generated environment that includes an object. In some examples, while presenting the computer-generated environment, the electronic device detects an input that includes rotation of a viewpoint of a user of the electronic device relative to the computer-generate...