ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,980, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Computer-generated reality recorder" was invented by Ranjit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.) and Maneli Noorkami (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the subject technology provides analyzing a recording of content. The subject technology generates metadata information based at least in part on the analyzing. The subject technology identifies, based at least in part on at least one of a user preference or a detected event, a region of interest or an object of interest in the recording of content. Based at least in part on the identified ...