ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,019, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synthetic scenes" was invented by Przemyslaw M. Iwanowski (San Francisco) and Joshua J. Taylor (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The creation of synthetic scenes from a combination of synthetic data and real environment data to allow for testing of extended reality (XR) applications on an electronic device is disclosed. In order to efficiently test an XR application, a scene data configuration can be specified within a synthetic service, representing a combination of different synthetic data and real environment data. In addition, scene understan...