US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with augmented and virtual reality environments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,324, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with augmented and virtual reality environments" was invented by Mark K. Hauenstein (San Francisco), Joseph A. Malia (Isle of Wight, Great Britain), Julian K. Missig (Burlingame, Calif.), Matthaeus Krenn (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jeffrey T. Bernstein (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays, in a first viewing mode, a simulated environment that is oriented relative to a physical environment of the computer system. In response to detecting a first change in attitude, the...