ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,815, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Toolbox and context for user interactions" was invented by Miao Ren (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Connor A. Smith (San Mateo, Calif.), Bruno M. Sommer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tucker B. Morgan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating collaboration in a multi-user communication session may include, at a first device, providing a toolkit of system-level tools for interacting within the session with a second device. A first user interaction with a first tool is detected which results in a virtual modification to an environment of the first device. In resp...