US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Method, device, and system for generating affordances linked to a representation of an item" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,804, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method, device, and system for generating affordances linked to a representation of an item" was invented by Alexander Oser (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of generating an affordance linked to an SR representation of an item is performed in a device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and one or more displays. The method includes identifying an item; generating an affordance-item pair that corresponds to the item; detecting an input selecting the affordance-item pair; and displaying, on the on...