US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Media capture lock affordance for graphical user interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,116, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Media capture lock affordance for graphical user interface" was invented by Anton M. Davydov (Gilroy, Calif.), Jane E. Koo (Campbell, Calif.), Johnnie B. Manzari (San Francisco), Grant R. Paul (San Francisco), William A. Sorrentino III (San Francisco), Andre Souza Dos Santos (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel J. Wiersema (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments are directed to a media capture lock affordance for a graphical user interface displayed by a media capture device. The media capture lock affordance allows a user to lock an...