ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,275, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and systems for performing content manipulation operations" was invented by Bradley W. Griffin (Redwood City, Calif.), Hannah Morgan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Wayne Carl Westerman (Burlingame, Calif.), Christopher D. Soli (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Meredith Noelani Burkle (San Francisco), Sara E. Andrews (Campbell, Calif.), Toby Charles Wood Paterson (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Patrick Lee Coffman (San Francisco), Tiffany S. Jon (Cupertino, Calif.) and Aram D. Kudurshian (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method inc...