ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,432, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of transferring user interaction between two computer systems" was invented by Richard P. Lozada (Cupertino, Calif.), Peter Burgner (Venice, Calif.), Thomas J. Moore (Northglenn, Colo.), Paul Ewers (San Jose, Calif.) and Lee Sparks (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for transitioning from a first user interface that corresponds to a first session of a first computer system to a second user interface of a second computer system in response to a change in contextual information. In some embodiments, the change in contex...