US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for adding effects in augmented reality environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,498, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for adding effects in augmented reality environments" was invented by James A. Queen (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Joseph-Alexander P. Weil (San Anselmo, Calif.), Joanna M. Newman (San Jose, Calif.), Ron A. Buencamino (San Jose, Calif.), Richard H. Salvador (Culver City, Calif.), Fernando Garcia (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Austin T. Tamaddon (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays a representation of a field of view of the one or more cameras, including a representation of a portion of a...