ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,127, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Controlling representations of virtual objects in a computer-generated reality environment" was invented by Aaron M. Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan Gitter (Cupertino, Calif.), Alexis H. Palangie (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pol Pla I. Conesa (Portland, Ore.) and David M. Schattel (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for controlling representations of virtual objects based on respective user contexts that each correspond to different respective locations in a computer-generated reality (CGR) en...