ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,331, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for creating, updating, and sharing novel file structures for persistent 3D object model markup information" was invented by David M. Schattel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arun Rakesh Yoganandan (San Francisco), Christopher L. Nolet (San Francisco), David Lui (San Jose, Calif.) and Reza Abbasian (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for rendering graphical content, e.g., in an extended reality (XR) environment, that provide for a creator (or recipient) of a 3D object markup file, e.g., a user operating an electr...