ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,553, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interface camera effects" was invented by Johnnie B. Manzari (San Francisco), Marek Bareza (London), Jeffrey A. Brasket (Honolulu), Frederic Cao (San Jose, Calif.), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Elliott Harris (San Francisco), Cyrus Daniel Irani (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Jose, Calif.), Garrett Johnson (San Francisco), Emilie Kim (San Francisco), Joseph A. Malia (Isle of Wight, Great Britain), Grant Paul (San Francisco), Pavel Pivonka (San Francisco), Billy Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Andre Souza Dos Santos (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...