ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,957, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for managing application widgets" was invented by Shubham Kedia (San Francisco), Christian X. Dalonzo (San Francisco) and William M. Tyler (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces that include application widgets. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a home screen, where displaying the home screen includes displaying a set of user interface elements based on whether an account that was used to set up the computer system is associated with a first type of content. In some ...