US Patent Issued to Apple on March 18 for "Device, method, and graphical user interface for moving a current position in content at a variable scrubbing rate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,171, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for moving a current position in content at a variable scrubbing rate" was invented by Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill (San Francisco), Michael J. Matas (Healdsburg, Calif.), Lucas C. Newman (San Francisco) and Marcel Van Os (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a progress icon that indicates a current position within a first piece of content, display...