US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 27 for "Accessing functions of external devices using reality interfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,982, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Accessing functions of external devices using reality interfaces" was invented by Justin D. Stoyles (San Francisco) and Michael Kuhn (Baierbrunn, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary process, an electronic device obtains, from an external device, information specifying one or more available functions of the external device, and image data of a physical environment that includes the external device is captured by an image sensor. The electronic device then determines that the image data includes a representation of the external device, and in res...