US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Devices and methods for generating virtual objects" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,742, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for generating virtual objects" was invented by Guillaume Couche (London) and Jonny Yeo (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples described in this disclosure are directed to devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for generating, updating, and/or presenting virtual objects in a computer-generated environment. In some examples, an electronic device presents a user interface for generating a virtual object corresponding to the real-world object detected by the electronic device, where the user interface includes selectable...