US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying media items shared from distinct applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,107, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying media items shared from distinct applications" was invented by Nicole R. Ryan (San Francisco), Chia Yang Lin (San Francisco), Graham R. Clarke (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Aaron Moring (Fremont, Calif.) and William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system receives, by a first application, a plurality of shared media items. After receiving the plurality of shared media items, the computer system receives, via one or more input devices, a request to search a m...