US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 12 for "User interfaces for downloading applications on an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,481, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for downloading applications on an electronic device" was invented by William M. Bachman (San Jose, Calif.), Monika E. Gromek (Oakland, Calif.), Alexander Constantin Diego Fringes (San Francisco) and Joseph Andrew Magnani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about, and facilitates downloading of, featured applications in an app store application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates browsing of applications and games by category. In some embodiments, an elect...