US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Methods for managing overlapping windows and applying visual effects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,847, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for managing overlapping windows and applying visual effects" was invented by William A. Sorrentino (Mill Valley, Calif.), Benjamin Hylak (San Francisco), Christopher D. McKenzie (Burlingame, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco), Miquel Estany Rodriguez (San Francisco) and James J. Owen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system changes a visual prominence of a respective virtual object in response to detecting a threshold amount of overlap between a first virtual object a...