ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. D1,092,551, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface" was invented by Samuel Howard Bebbington (San Francisco), Kevin Will Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Christopher Foss (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Chanaka Karunamuni (Cupertino, Calif.), Stephen O Lemay (San Francisco), Christopher Daryl Soli (Mountain View, Calif.), Aled Williams (San Francisco) and Christopher Wilson (San Francisco).

The patent was filed on July 30, 2024, under Application No. D/954,958.

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