US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for launching and replacing applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,551, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for launching and replacing applications" was invented by Nathan Gitter (Cupertino, Calif.), Aaron M. Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin Hylak (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco) and Alexis H. Palangie (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A representation displayed in a three-dimensional environment may be selected with different types of selection inputs. When a representation displayed in the three-dimensional environment is selected, an application corresponding to the representation may be launched in the th...