ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,921, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods for manipulating a virtual object" was invented by William D. Lindmeier (San Francisco), Tony Kobayashi (Berkley, Calif.), Alexis H. Palangie (Palo Alto, Calif.), Carmine Elvezio (San Francisco) and Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system performs virtual object manipulation operations using respective portions of the user's body and/or input device(s). In some embodiments, a computer system manipulates a virtual object based on input from a hand of a user and/or a handheld device. In s...