US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Methods for displaying, selecting and moving objects and containers in an environment" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,977, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for displaying, selecting and moving objects and containers in an environment" was invented by Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Evgenii Krivoruchko (San Francisco), Matan Stauber (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system performs different object selection-related operations. In some embodiments, a computer system places objects at locations in a displayed region based on attention of a user. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a container virtual object wi...