ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,835, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with three-dimensional environments" was invented by Philipp Rockel (San Francisco), Jeffrey M. Faulkner (Sisters, Ore.), Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Wesley M. Holder (Union City, Calif.), Nicholas W. Henderson (San Carlos, Calif.), Robert T. Tilton (Los Angeles), Richard R. Dellinger (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.), Giancarlo Yerkes (San Francisco), Pedro Mari (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Peter D. Anton (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* relea...