ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,412, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for a media browsing application" was invented by Drew R. Domm (Los Angeles), Matthew J. Cielak (Seattle), Fredric Vinna (San Francisco), Fernando A. Albuquerque (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher J. Ellingford (Alameda, Calif.) and Christine E. Tran (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a plurality of representations of content items in a unified media browsing application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information on representations of content items. In some embo...