US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 11 for "Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for scanning and modeling environments" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,207, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for scanning and modeling environments" was invented by Allison W. Dryer (Tiburon, Calif.), Giancarlo Yerkes (San Carlos, Calif.), Praveen Sharma (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Grant R. Paul (San Francisco) and Joseph A. Malia (Isle of Wight, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays a preview of a three-dimensional model of a physical environment that includes a partially completed three-dimensional model of the physical environment that is displayed with a first orientation that corresponds to a ...