US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Operating modes for reducing distraction in extended reality environments" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,917, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Operating modes for reducing distraction in extended reality environments" was invented by Grant H. Mulliken (Los Gatos, Calif.), Anura A. Patil (San Francisco), Brian Pasley (Berkeley, Calif.), Christine Godwin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eve Ekman (San Francisco), Jonathan Hadida (Redwood City, Calif.), Lauren Cheung (Los Altos, Calif.), Mary A. Pyc (Campbell, Calif.), Patrick O. Eronini (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raphael A. Bernier (Seattle), Steven A. Marchette (San Jose, Calif.) and Fletcher R. Rothkopf (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments a...