ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,929, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Display of electronic books" was invented by Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill (San Francisco), David Heller (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeffrey Robbin (Los Altos, Calif.), Alan C. Cannistraro (San Francisco), William Martin Bachman (San Jose, Calif.), Timothy B. Martin (Golden, Colo.), Matt Evans (San Francisco) and Joe R. Howard (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic b...