US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Providing and controlling immersive three-dimensional environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,415, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Providing and controlling immersive three-dimensional environments" was invented by Gavin K. Duffy (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Lynn I. Streja (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to methods and interfaces for providing and controlling immersive outputs. In some examples, an immersive output including a displayed environmental effect is provided in response to a speech request from a user. While the immersive output including the displayed environmental effect is being provided, the immersive output is modified in res...