US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 18 for "Video editing and key-framing animations using accessory on a touch device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,715, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Video editing and key-framing animations using accessory on a touch device" was invented by David C Schweinsberg (Los Angeles), Gregory E Niles (Culver City, Calif.), Shaun M Poole (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Peter A Steinauer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more embodiments, a computing device is configured to present playback of a media composition on a touchscreen display. Concurrently with presenting the playback, the computing device receives, via the touchscreen display during a first time period, a touch input that includes a series of...