ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,142, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interfaces for sharing contextually relevant media content" was invented by Lynne Devine (San Francisco), Michael Brandt (San Jose, Calif.), Eric M.G. Circlaeys (Los Gatos, Calif.), Chelsea Leblanc (Mountain View, Calif.), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.), Gregg Suzuki (Daly City, Calif.) and Joar Wingfors (Umea, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to managing and sharing contextually-relevant media content. In some embodiments, a device receives an input, and in response, displays a suggested coll...