ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,251, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Declaratively defined user interface timeline views" was invented by David A. Schimon (San Francisco), August L. Joki (Campbell, Calif.), Joshua C. Weinberg (Campbell, Calif.) and Matthew S. Koonce (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system to render user interface timeline views for display of dynamic application content includes a processor configured to retrieve a data structure corresponding to user interfaces of an application associated with respective times, and at least one declaratively defined user interface element...