US Patent Issued to Apple on April 8 for "System and method of three-dimensional immersive applications in multi-user communication sessions" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,005, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method of three-dimensional immersive applications in multi-user communication sessions" was invented by Miao Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Connor A. Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hayden J. Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Bruno M. Sommer (Shelby Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the disclosure are directed to selective display of avatars corresponding to users of electronic devices in a multi-user communication session. In some examples, when immersive content is shared in the communication session, the avatars remain displayed when ...