ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,091, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods for manipulating objects in an environment" was invented by Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Alexis Henri Palangie (Palo Alto, Calif.), Peter D. Anton (Portola Valley, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jonathan Ravasz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shi-Shang Chiu (San Francisco), Christopher D. McKenzie (Burlingame, Calif.) and Dorian D. Dargan (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device automatically updates the orientation of a virtual object in a three-dimensional environment based on a viewpoint o...