ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,931, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for controlling and interacting with a three-dimensional environment" was invented by Sean L. Seguin (Lafayette, Colo.), Lorena S. Pazmino (San Francisco) and Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays an immersion control, a volume control, an element configured to permit or restrict breakthrough in different modes of operation of the computer system, and/or an option selectable to cause initiation of display of a representation of content from a second computer system via a display generation component of th...