US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "User interfaces and associated systems and processes for controlling playback of content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,111, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces and associated systems and processes for controlling playback of content" was invented by Jeff Tan-Ang (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher J. Ellingford (Alameda, Calif.), Christopher J. Sanders (San Jose, Calif.), Dila Sart (San Jose, Calif.), Justin K. Arnold (San Jose, Calif.), Justin D Gaussoin (Newport Coast, Calif.), Kevin M. Sandlow (Los Angeles), Lucio Moreno Rufo (San Jose, Calif.), Neil P. Cormican (Menlo Park, Calif.), Policarpo B. Wood (San Jose, Calif.) and Yonghyun A. Kim (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments...