US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "System and method of application-based three-dimensional refinement in multi-user communication sessions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,641, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method of application-based three-dimensional refinement in multi-user communication sessions" was invented by Connor A. Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher D. McKenzie (Burlingame, Calif.) and Nathan Gitter (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the disclosure are directed to methods for application-based spatial refinement in a multi-user communication session including a first electronic device and a second electronic device. While the first electronic device is presenting a three-dimensional environment, the first elec...