US Patent Issued to Apple on May 26 for "Object placement for electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,950, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Object placement for electronic devices" was invented by Michael E. Buerli (San Francisco) and Pavel V. Dudrenov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology provide a real-time system for positioning and/or arranging application content anchored to locations in a physical environment. The subject technology may include a placement system that facilitates placement of application content relative to the anchors, according to application and/or system preferences and/or requirements for display of the content."

The patent was fil...