US Patent Issued to Apple on March 31 for "Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying and manipulating virtual objects in augmented reality environments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,043, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying and manipulating virtual objects in augmented reality environments" was invented by Nicolas V. Scapel (London) and Patrick W. O'Keefe (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system having one or more cameras displays in an augmented reality user interface a representation of a field of view of the one or more cameras, including a plurality of objects in a physical environment. In response to one or more first user inputs, the system places or moves a virtual object at or to a l...