US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Methods for time of day adjustments for environments and environment presentation during communication sessions" (California, New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,956, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for time of day adjustments for environments and environment presentation during communication sessions" was invented by Nicholas W. Henderson (San Carlos, Calif.), Matan Stauber (Philadelphia), Katherine W. Kolombatovich (New York), James M. Dessero (Morgan Hil, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), William A. Sorrentino III (Kentfield, Calif.) and Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system applies a time of day setting to a virtual environment. In some embodiments, the time of day s...