ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,271, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method of three-dimensional object cleanup and text annotation" was invented by Jeremy R. Bernstein (San Francisco), Michelle Chua (Seattle), Arnold H. Cachelin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eric Geusz (San Francisco), Karen N. Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Novaira Masood (San Jose, Calif.), Zachary Z. Becker (Kirkland, Wash.) and Shem Nguyen (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the disclosure are directed to object manipulators and associated processes for manipulating an object representation in a three-dimensional environment. The ob...