US Patent Issued to Apple on May 20 for "Techniques for manipulating computer-generated objects in a computer graphics editor or environment" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,077, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for manipulating computer-generated objects in a computer graphics editor or environment" was invented by Adam Bolton (La Pine, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer generated 3D environment can include one or more free-space pins not permanently associated with any objects in the 3D environment. Objects in the 3D environment can be associated with one or more of the free-space pins, so that input at a selected free-space pin can cause manipulation of the objects associated with the selected free-space pin. For example, the selected free-space...