ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,917, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Extended reality based digital assistant interactions" was invented by Lynn I. Streja (San Francisco), Keith P. Avery (Seattle), Karan M. Daryanani (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Myra C. Lukens (San Francisco), Sreeneel K. Maddika (San Ramon, Calif.), Chaitanya Mannemala (San Ramon, Calif.), Aswath Manoharan (Tucson, Ariz.), Pedro Mari (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jay Moon (San Francisco) and Abhishek Rawat (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example process includes: while displaying a portion of an extended reality (XR) enviro...