ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,953, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Scrolling interface control for computer display" was invented by Prem V. Tandon (Clifton, N.J.) and Robert Joseph Kamphausen Jr. (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus control scrolling of graphical content arranged in a sequence of panels by a computer responsive to a user input device. A method includes sensing, by the computer, a direction and length of continuous cursor movement along a first axis of the user input device. The method further includes progressing display of the graphical content through the seq...