ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,582, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Audio file interface" was invented by Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Scott M. Herz (San Jose, Calif.), Sean Boland Kelly (San Francisco), Scott Forstall (Los Altos, Calif.), Gregory N. Christie (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Tiene (Cupertino, Calif.) and Steven P. Jobs (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for providing an audio file interface. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes, while playing an audio file on a mobile device and displaying a current view in a user interface of ...