ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,301, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Custom blending for transparent layers" was invented by Dong Joo Byun (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In "extended reality" (XR) environments, it is possible to shoot or "march" a group of light rays from the location of an eye of a viewer to one or more graphical components in a 3D space rendered in the XR environment. If a ray from the viewer's eye intersects with a graphical object(s) in the 3D space, it is possible to calculate the various point(s) of intersection of the ray with the graphical object, as well as normal vectors in 3D space...