US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Sharing extension points to allow an application to share content via a sharing extension" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,781, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sharing extension points to allow an application to share content via a sharing extension" was invented by Rony Fadel (Paris), Thomas Deniau (Paris), Guyerik B. Fullerton (San Jose, Calif.), Akihide Inoue (Los Gatos, Calif.), Troy Stephens (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and Alexandre Carlhian (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sharing extension point receives a request from a host application for sharing content, the sharing extension point being one of the extension points of an extension framework of an operating system, each corresponding to a common interface to...