US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on March 31 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for providing content" (British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,357, issued on March 31, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for providing content" was invented by Marc Van Den Broeck (Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium) and Zoran Radivojevic (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to providing content from a console device to one or more user devices. In examples of the disclosure a console device can be configured to detect an activation input wherein the activation input includes physical contact with a user interface controlled by the apparatus, for example, the user interface of the c...