ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,550, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for capturing and interacting with enhanced digital images" was invented by Nicholas V. King (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Daniel T. Preston (San Francisco), Behkish J. Manzari (San Francisco), Justin S. Titi (San Jose, Calif.), Henrique D. Penha (San Francisco) and Graham R. Clarke (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device displays a wake screen that includes a representative image in a sequence of images. While displaying the wake screen, the elec...