US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Methods for quick message response and dictation in a three-dimensional environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,666, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for quick message response and dictation in a three-dimensional environment" was invented by Shiraz Akmal (Playa Vista, Calif.), Brad K. Herman (Culver City, Calif.), Garrett L. Weinberg (Santa Cruz, Calif.), St. John W. Colon (Los Angeles) and Viraaj M. Marathe (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer system facilitates user input for sending a quick message to a respective user based on speech input provided by a user of the computer system in the three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, a computer system fac...