ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,536, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Navigating through documents in a document viewing application" was invented by Charles J. Migos (Millbrae, Calif.), Michel Elings (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ian J. Elseth (Vancouver, Wash.), Genevieve Garand (San Francisco), Kyle Howarth (San Jose, Calif.), Steve E. Marmon (Mountain View, Calif.), Martin J. Murrett (Portland, Ore.) and Jip van der Velde (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for a document viewing application. While displaying a sequence of selectable items that each correspond to a different document in a s...