ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,193, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for detecting objects" was invented by Christopher B. Fleizach (Gilroy, Calif.), Allison Lettiere (San Francisco), Cole A. Gleason (Seattle), Darren C. Minifie (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Nandini Kannamangalam Sundara Raman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ryan N. Dour (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an computer system detects objects, such as physical objects in the physical environment of the electronic device. In some embodiments, the computer system presents indications of characteristics of the physical objects. In some e...