US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 19 for "Systems, methods and user interfaces for object tracing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,330, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods and user interfaces for object tracing" was invented by William D. Lindmeier (San Francisco) and Laura Sugden (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device is configured to present user interfaces to facilitate tracing of objects within a three-dimensional environment of the electronic device. In some embodiments, the objects are physical and/or virtual. In some embodiments, the electronic device detects input directed to an input object and displays virtual ink tracing objects in accordance with the in...