ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,530, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for viewing and accessing content on an electronic device" was invented by Policarpo B. Wood (San Jose, Calif.), Jeff Tan-Ang (San Jose, Calif.) and Florian M. Ponson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of items of content available for playback on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents selectable options for playing an item of content in accordance with the manners in which the item of content is available to be played on the electr...