US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Presenting an environment based on user movement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,857, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Presenting an environment based on user movement" was invented by Alexis Palangie (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Aaron Mackay Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary process, a computer-generated reality environment comprising a virtual object is presented and user movement that occurs in a physical environment is detected. In response to determining that the detected user movement is toward the virtual object and that the virtual object obstructs a real object from the physical environment, a determination is made whether the detected...