US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods of creating and editing virtual objects using voxels" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,494, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of creating and editing virtual objects using voxels" was invented by Guillaume Couche (London), Jonny Yeo (London), William D. Lindmeier (San Francisco) and Tony Kobayashi (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional computer-generated environment can be presented to a user. The user can create a virtual representation of a real-world object within the computer-generated environment by directing an input device towards the real-world object and tracing contours of the real-world object. The virtual representation can in...