US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Presentation features for performing operations and selecting content" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,307, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Presentation features for performing operations and selecting content" was invented by Mark J. Flider (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for presenting operations in a presentation. A technique is provided for allowing a user to insert media items on consecutive slides. During a presentation mode, the media items are determined to be two instances of a same media item, and matched such that the media item plays continuously across multiple slides. Another technique is provided to allow a us...