US Patent Issued on Jan. 27 for "Systems, methods, and user interface for navigating media playback using scrollable text" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,602, issued on Jan. 27.

"Systems, methods, and user interface for navigating media playback using scrollable text" was invented by Curtis Evans (Springfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile computing device can be configured, with an improved user interface, to synchronously play audio (or video) and text associated thereto, such as text stored in a synchronization index. Using the synchronization index, the device can periodically compare the current track time with that time associated to a word or range of words, such as a line (or segment) in a plurality of lines of text (or segments of text). Improved navigability of...