US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for automatic measurement in augmented reality environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,940, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for automatic measurement in augmented reality environments" was invented by Allison W. Dryer (Tiburon, Calif.), Giancarlo Yerkes (San Carlos, Calif.) and Lisa K. Forssell (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays, in a user interface, a first representation of a body part that is in a field of view of the one or more cameras. The computer system detects, using the one or more cameras, movement of the body part. The displayed first representation of the body part is updated in a...