ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,083, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods for manipulating objects in an environment" was invented by Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Evgenii Krivoruchko (San Francisco), Matan Stauber (San Francisco) and Zoey C. Taylor (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, while displaying a content entry user interface element and while a first content entry tool is selected, an electronic device detects a first movement of a predefined portion of a user while the predefined portion has a first shape. In some embodiments, in response to detecting the first movement, in acc...