US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Advertisement user interface" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,795, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Advertisement user interface" was invented by Gregory N. Christie (San Jose, Calif.), Alessandro Sabatelli (San Francisco), William M. Bachman (San Jose, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Jeffrey Robbin (Los Altos, Calif.), Jim Young (Livermore, Calif.), Joe Howard (San Jose, Calif.), Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeffrey Ma (Redwood City, Calif.) and Lynne Kress (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a media content system. A media content provider in...