ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,126, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to West Texas Technology Partners LLC (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for a three dimensional interface" was invented by Iryna Issayeva (Foster City, Calif.), Sleiman Itani (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Allen Yang Yang (Richmond, Calif.) and Mohamed Nabil Hajj Chehade (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for interacting with a three dimensional interface. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: generating a zone associated with a virtual object, wherein the zone includes a first space approximate to at least a portion of the objec...