US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 2 for "Devices and methods for controlling electronic devices or systems with physical objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,661, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for controlling electronic devices or systems with physical objects" was invented by Shem Nguyen (Oakland, Calif.) and Soravis Prakkamakul (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples described in this disclosure are performed at a first electronic device (e.g., a computer system) that is in communication with a display and one or more input devices. In some examples, the first electronic device detects a change in a physical environment of the first electronic device due to movement of one or more physical objects in the ...