ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,124, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Health aware media navigation and consumption" was invented by Gregory S. Robbin (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel E. Marusich (San Carlos, Calif.), Eliza J. Von Hagen (Campbell, Calif.) and Emily A. Stone (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a user interface displayed by an electronic device is used for playback of media associated with health-based metadata, wherein the electronic device is configured to initiate processes to forgo display of sensitive content and/or display an interactive timeline indicating such sensitive content ba...