US Patent Issued to Apple on May 13 for "Devices and method for providing remote control hints on a display" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,948, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and method for providing remote control hints on a display" was invented by Gregory N. Christie (San Jose, Calif.), Alessandro Sabatelli (San Francisco), William M. Bachman (San Jose, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Jeffrey Robbin (Los Altos, Calif.), Jim Young (Livermore, Calif.), Joe Howard (San Jose, Calif.), Marcel Van Os (San Francisco), Patrick L Coffman (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeffrey Ma (Redwood City, Calif.) and Lynne Kress (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a media content user...