US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for navigating, displaying, and editing media items with multiple display modes" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,840, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for navigating, displaying, and editing media items with multiple display modes" was invented by Behkish J. Manzari (San Francisco), Britt S. Miura (Menlo Park, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andre Souza Dos Santos (San Jose, Calif.) and Charles A. Mezak (Fairfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a representation of a media item that corresponds to a sequence of images including a representative image. In response t...