ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,843, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Configurable extremity visibility" was invented by Peter L. Hajas (Lafayette, Colo.), Sebastien Metrot (Paris), Michael E. Buerli (San Francisco), Michael A. Reiter (San Francisco), Diego Trazzi (Mountain View, Calif.), Conner J. Brooks (San Francisco) and Jacob Wilson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to receive, by a system process and from an application process, a visibility preference for an object type and segment one or more physical objects associated with the object type from an image of a physical...