US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for saving and restoring scenes in a multimedia system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,655, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for saving and restoring scenes in a multimedia system" was invented by Alan Cannistraro (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recommending and activating scenes in a multimedia system are provided. The techniques of the present disclosure can allow the states of the components in the multimedia system to be captured in a scene. Once the scene has been saved, the scene can be activated at a later time. A controller device for recommending scenes by comparing the current state with states of components in saved scenes is also provi...