US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Representations of messages in a three-dimensional environment" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,009, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Representations of messages in a three-dimensional environment" was invented by James J. Owen (San Francisco), Christine E. Welch (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jesse Chand (San Francisco), Lucie Belanger (Beloeil, Canada), Wendy F. Eduarte (Detroit), Dorian D. Dargan (Danville, Calif.) and William A. Sorrentino III (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system modifies the visual appearances of user interface objects based on their spatial arrangement relative to the viewpoint of the user in a three-dimensional environment. In some ...