US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Interfaces and devices for dynamically-available media playback" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,843, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Interfaces and devices for dynamically-available media playback" was invented by Taylor G. Carrigan (San Francisco) and Pedro Mari (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to managing dynamically-available media playback and adapting visual outputs based on device capabilities and a state of the device. In some embodiments, a computer system manages whether an external electronic device is configurable to be available for a first media playback function. In some embodiments, a computer system selective causes ...