US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Content item scrubbing techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,915, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Content item scrubbing techniques" was invented by Nathan De Vries (San Francisco) and Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a content item scrubbing technique includes, while displaying a user interface including a content item, receiving, via one or more input devices, an input for scrubbing through the content item, wherein the input for scrubbing through the content item includes a first part directed to a region corresponding to a portion of the user interface that does not include a scrubber bar, and a ...