ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,338, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Shared-content session user interfaces" was invented by Jae Woo Chang (Cupertino, Calif.), Mani Amini (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco), Kaely Coon (San Francisco), Kyle W. Horn (Chicago), Raymond S. Sepulveda (Portland, Ore.), Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Chun Kin Minor Wong (Portland, Ore.) and Brandon O. Young (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing shared-content sessions. In some embodiments, content is shared with a group of users participating in ...