US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Systems and methods of reducing obstruction by three-dimensional content" (Canadian, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,376, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of reducing obstruction by three-dimensional content" was invented by Samuel M. Weinig (San Francisco), Lucie Belanger (Beloeil, Canada), Angel Suet Yan Cheung (San Francisco), David H. Huang (San Mateo, Calif.) and Dean Jackson (Yass, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for preventing three-dimensional content from obscuring portions of a web browser or other user interface in a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, the methods include applying one or more visual treatments to the three-dimensional content. In so...