ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,203, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating an interactive user interface" was invented by Patrick S. Piemonte (San Francisco), Jason D. Gosnell (San Jose, Calif.), Kjell F. Bronder (San Francisco), Daniel De Rocha Rosario (San Francisco), Shaun D. Budhram (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott Herz (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for interaction between a user and a machine. In one implementation, machine status information for the machine is received at a dedicated machine component. The ...