US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Maintaining eye contact between representations of users in three-dimensional environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,387, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Maintaining eye contact between representations of users in three-dimensional environments" was invented by Julien Robert (San Francisco), Long H. Ngo (San Jose, Calif.), Shih-Sang Chiu (San Francisco) and Wenchuan Wei (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a first electronic device presents a computer-generated environment, the first electronic device being at a first location relative to a first origin in a first physical environment of a user of the first electronic device, and having a first orientation relative to the first origin...