ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,271, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Attention control in multi-user environments" was invented by Divine Keetle-Maloney (Santa Clara, Calif.), Steven A. Marchette (Saratoga, Calif.) and David Hobbins (Venice, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide a view of an environment with a visual effect based on a determined objective. For example, an example process may include presenting a view of an environment including one or more objects during a communication session involving a second device. The process may fu...