US Patent Issued to Apple on June 24 for "Muting mode for a virtual object representing one or more physical elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,031, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Muting mode for a virtual object representing one or more physical elements" was invented by Clement Pierre Nicolas Boissiere (San Francisco), Shaun Budhram (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tucker Bull Morgan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bruno M. Sommer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Connor A. Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for displaying a virtual object in an enhanced reality setting in accordance with a physical muting mode being active are described. In some examples, while the physical muting mode is active, a system obtains a first set of context ...