US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Aligning scanned environments for multi-user communication sessions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,799, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Aligning scanned environments for multi-user communication sessions" was invented by Bruno M. Sommer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Long H. Ngo (San Jose, Calif.) and Sebastian P. Herscher (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations provide a method for determining position data of a first device relative to a three-dimensional (3D) representation during a communication session. For example, a 3D representation is determined by a first device to correspond to a current physical environment of the first device...