US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 8 for "Dynamic resizable media item player" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,554, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamic resizable media item player" was invented by Matthew Thomas Darby (San Francisco), Clifford Curry (San Francisco), Bryce Gibson Reid (San Francisco), Andrey Doronichev (San Francisco), Andrew Janich (Mountain View, Calif.), Alan Joyce (Mountain View, Calif.), Taeho Ko (San Francisco), Justin Lewis (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Kevin Greene (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for managing media item playback. A method includes presenting a media player playing a media item in a first portion of a user interface (U...