US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "User interface for interacting with an affordance in an environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,836, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interface for interacting with an affordance in an environment" was invented by Adam Michael O'Hern (Campbell, Calif.), Mark Alan Ebbole (San Francisco), Justin Timothy Voss (San Jose, Calif.), Charles Magahern (San Francisco), Peter Louis Hajas (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael E. Buerli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for indicating a distance to a selectable portion of a virtual surface. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory...