US Patent Issued to Apple on May 13 for "User interfaces for accessing episodes of a content series" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,950, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for accessing episodes of a content series" was invented by Christopher J. Ellingford (Alameda, Calif.) and Lucio Moreno Rufo (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface associated with an episodic series. In some embodiments, the user interface includes representations of episodes that are downloaded on the device, does not include a representation of a given not-yet-downloaded episode, and optionally includes a download affordance that is selectable to initiate a process fo...