ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,348, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and devices for presenting and manipulating conditionally dependent synthesized reality content threads" was invented by Ian M. Richter (Los Angeles), Michael J. Rockwell (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amritpal Singh Saini (San Jose, Calif.) and Olivier Soares (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method includes presenting, via a display device, a first synthesized reality (SR) view of an event that includes SR content associated with the event. The SR content includes a plurality of related layers of SR content that perform act...