ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,907, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displaying a rendered volumetric representation according to different display modes" was invented by David Lui (San Jose, Calif.), Xiao Jin Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tyler L. Casella (San Mateo, Calif.), Hon-Ming Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Shuai Song (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes rendering a first volumetric object in order to generate first object data. The method includes displaying, on the display, the...