ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,353, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Anchoring to multiple positions of an auxiliary device" was invented by Benjamin R. Blachnitzky (San Francisco), Aaron M. Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anette L Freiin von Kapri (Mountain View, Calif.), Arun Rakesh Yoganandan (San Francisco), Jue Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michelle Chua (Seattle) and Zachary Z. Becker (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed at an electronic device with a non-transitory memory, one or more processors, and a display. The method includes obtaining positional information regarding an auxiliary device. The ...