US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 21 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for processing inputs to a three-dimensional environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,947, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for processing inputs to a three-dimensional environment" was invented by Mark A. Ebbole (San Francisco), Leah M. Gum (Sunol, Calif.), Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi (San Jose, Calif.) and Chia-Ling Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While a view of an environment is visible via a display generation component of a computer system, the computer system detects a gaze input directed to a first location, corresponding to a first user interface element, in the environment. In response to detecting the ...