ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,334, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for altering visual media" was invented by Johnnie B. Manzari (San Francisco), Graham R. Clarke (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Toke Jansen (Holte, Denmark), Wayne Loofbourrow (San Jose, Calif.), Joseph A. Malia (Isle of Wight, Great Britain), Seyyedhossein Mousavi (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Jens Jacob Pallisgaard (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paul Thomas Schneider (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joshua Blake Shagam (Redwood City, Calif.), William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.), Andre Souza Dos Santos (San Jose, Calif.), Piotr J. Stanczyk (San Francisco) and Agnes Nemeth (San Francisco).

According to the abstrac...