US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Methods for interacting with virtual controls and/or an affordance for moving virtual objects in virtual environments" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,532, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for interacting with virtual controls and/or an affordance for moving virtual objects in virtual environments" was invented by Israel Pastrana Vicente (Spring, Texas), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Wesley M. Holder (Union City, Calif.), Pol Pla I Conesa (San Francisco) and Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with virtual objects in a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with selectable user interf...