US Patent Issued to Apple on May 20 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for modifying avatars in three-dimensional environments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,613, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for modifying avatars in three-dimensional environments" was invented by Benjamin H. Boesel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rupert Burton (San Francisco), Jordan A. Cazamias (San Francisco), Shih-Sang Chiu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jason D. Rickwald (Santa Cruz, Calif.), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.), Nicolas V. Scapel (London) and Giancarlo Yerkes (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for improving a user experience for modifying display of an avatar in X...