US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for providing and interacting with application-update objects on a mobile device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,842, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing and interacting with application-update objects on a mobile device" was invented by Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sean B. Kelly (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device with a display receives one or more inputs to install an application on the mobile device. The mobile device initiates a download of the application to the mobile device. While the application is downloading to the mobile device, the mobile device displays, on a home screen of the display, a placeholder object associated with the a...