ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,612, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and device for resolving focal conflict" was invented by Alexis Henri Palangie (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shih Sang Chiu (San Francisco), Bruno M. Sommer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Connor Alexander Smith (San Mateo, Calif.) and Aaron Mackay Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of resolving focal conflict in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a display. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image...