ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,185, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Identifying objects using spatial ontology" was invented by Perry A. Caro (San Jose, Calif.) and Nikhil Gupta (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary process, a representation of a setting is obtained. A first object is detected based on the representation of the setting and a set of identifiers is retrieved. In response to detecting a change in the representation of the setting, the set of identifiers is modified based on a first set of definitions. A user input associated with the representation of the setting is received, and based on the modi...