US Patent Issued to Apple on April 29 for "Identifying applications on which content is available" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,953, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Identifying applications on which content is available" was invented by Graham R. Clarke (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device receives an input corresponding to a request for information about a user-specified topic. In response, the electronic device displays information about media that is relevant to the user-specified topic, including concurrently displaying: a representation of respective media that is available for viewing on a first set of applications, the electronic device having a second set of...