US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Method of customizing and demonstrating products in a virtual environment" (California, Minnesota, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,084, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method of customizing and demonstrating products in a virtual environment" was invented by Brendan J. Scully (Cos Cob, Conn.), Alexander B. Oser (Minneapolis), Wilson W. Yin (Cupertino, Calif.), Yang Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Paul C. Hikiji (San Jose, Calif.), Maxime Montegnies (Alameda, Calif.), Weixuan Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wai Ki Chan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jaewoong Hwang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for providing a virtual shopping experience in which a demonstration of a product is presented to the user. In some embodime...