US Patent Issued to Apple on May 20 for "Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for annotating, measuring, and modeling environments" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,067, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for annotating, measuring, and modeling environments" was invented by Allison W. Dryer (Tiburon, Calif.), Giancarlo Yerkes (San Carlos, Calif.), Grant R. Paul (San Francisco), Lisa K Forssell (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Joseph A. Malia (Isle of Wight, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system displays a representation of a camera field of view including a first portion of a physical environment, captures depth information indicative of a first subset of the first portion, and displays, overlaid on a portion ...