US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 19 for "Window resizing and virtual object rearrangement in 3D environments" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,167, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Window resizing and virtual object rearrangement in 3D environments" was invented by Brendan J. Scully (Cos Cob, Conn.) and Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for counter-scaling windows and rearranging objects within those counter-scaled windows in a 3D computer-generated environment is disclosed. The windows can be counter-scaled in accordance with changes to their depth within the 3D computer-generated environment. Objects within the window can be presented at their actual size and with their correct scale relative to ea...