ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,881, issued on Nov. 18.

"Electronic device with intuitive control interface" was invented by Colin M. Ely (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Erik G. de Jong (San Francisco), Stephen Brian Lynch (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Fletcher R. Rothkopf (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a display system and control circuitry. The user's environment may be presented on the display system. The environment on the display system may be a captured image of the environment, may be the actual real world viewed through an optical combiner, or may be a completely virtual image representing the environment. The control...