ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,357, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Watch theater mode" was invented by Kevin Tyler McAtee (San Francisco), Baboo Gowreesunker (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael J. Lamb (San Jose, Calif.), Brent W. Schorsch (San Jose, Calif.) and Kevin Lynch (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to receiving a user input corresponding to a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism and in accordance with the user input, adjusting a brightness level of a display screen during a brightening configuration session."
The patent was filed on July 3, 2024, under Application ...