ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,081, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for content applications" was invented by Benjamin Hylak (San Francisco), Aaron M. Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan Gitter (Cupertino, Calif.), Jordan A Cazamias (San Francisco), Alexis H. Palangie (Palo Alto, Calif.) and James J. Owen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and graphical interfaces for content applications displayed in an XR environment provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, a content application is displayed in a three-dimensional comp...