ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,025, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Restricting display area of applications" was invented by Meghna Achyut Sapre (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Adam Roben (Swarthmore, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for designating a bounded volumetric region in which an application can display content. In some implementations, a device includes a display, one or more processors, and a memory. While displaying first content associated with a first application within a first bounded region, the device detects a request from a second applicat...