ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,703, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Digital assistant interactions in extended reality" was invented by Jessica J. Peck (Morgan Hill, Calif.), James N. Jones (San Francisco), Ieyuki Kawashima (Pleasanton, Calif.), Lynn I. Streja (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example process includes while displaying, on a display, an extended reality (XR) environment: receiving a user input; sampling, with a microphone, a user speech input; in accordance with a determination that the user input satisfies a ...