ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,144, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Controlling external devices using reality interfaces" was invented by Justin D. Stoyles (San Francisco) and Michael Kuhn (Baierbrunn, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some exemplary processes for controlling an external device using a computer-generated reality interface, a view of a physical environment that includes the external device is provided through the display, and information specifying a function of the external device is received from the external device. While the view of the physical environment is being provided, an affordance correspon...