ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,475, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-user TV user interface" was invented by Gregory N. Christie (San Jose, Calif.), Alessandro Sabatelli (San Francisco), William M. Bachman (San Jose, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Jeffrey Robbin (Los Altos, Calif.), Jim Young (Livermore, Calif.), Joe Howard (San Jose, Calif.), Marcel Van Os (San Francisco), Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeffrey Ma (Redwood City, Calif.) and Lynne Kress (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a media content system. A media content provider include...