US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Shared data and collaboration for head-mounted devices" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,005, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Shared data and collaboration for head-mounted devices" was invented by Marinus Meursing (Poway, Calif.), David A. Schmuck (Raymore, Mo.), Brian S. Lau (Sacramento, Calif.) and Jeremy C. Franklin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include head-mounted devices that collaborate to process views from cameras of the respective head-mounted devices and identify objects from different perspectives and/or objects that are within the view of only one of the head-mounted devices. Sharing sensory input between multiple head-mounted devices can comp...