ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,600, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Three-dimensional point selection" was invented by Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anselm Grundhoefer (Campbell, Calif.) and Ivan Kolesov (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide point identification techniques for electronic devices such as optical see-through head mounted devices. In some implementations, a line of sight technique is used to identify a 3D position of a point. In some implementations, a touching technique is used to iden...