US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Capturing and storing an image of a physical environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,034, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Capturing and storing an image of a physical environment" was invented by Elena J. Nattinger (Menlo Park, Calif.), Peter Burgner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anna L. Brewer (Cupertino, Calif.) and Devin W. Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, while presenting a representation of a physical environment of the device, obtaining contextual data that indicates a characteristic of the physical environment, the device or a user of the device, and obtaining an indication of historical content associated with the device. The method includes...