US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Privately sharing user preferences" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,646, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Privately sharing user preferences" was invented by Avi Bar-zeev (Oakland, Calif.), Ranjit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.) and Rahul Nair (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations provide a method for determining how a second user prefers to be depicted/augmented in a first user's view of a multi-user environment in a privacy preserving way. For example, a method may include determining that a physical environment includes a second device, where a second user associated with the second device is to be depicted in a view of a three-dim...