US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "User interfaces that include representations of the environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,364, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces that include representations of the environment" was invented by Yiqiang Nie (San Francisco), Giovanni M. Agnoli (San Mateo, Calif.), Devin W. Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.), Allison W. Dryer (Tiburon, Calif.), Thomas G. Salter (San Francisco) and Giancarlo Yerkes (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the present disclosure includes techniques and user interfaces for interacting with virtual objects in an extended reality environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual...