ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,681, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting a display property of an affordance over changing background content" was invented by Wan Si Wan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Marcos Alonso Ruiz (Oakland, Calif.), Bartosz Ciechanowski (Woodside, Calif.) and Benjamin E. Nielsen (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system with a display generation component displays a user interface object overlaying a portion of video content. When display properties of the portion of the video content meets first criteria...