ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,487, issued on May 20, was assigned to IQzone Inc. (Paradise Valley, Ariz.).

"Activity-backed overlay technique for media display on mobile devices" was invented by Matthew Aaron Feadler (Phoenix), James Alex Wolfinger (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Sean Robert Wagner (Ferndale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activity-based overlay technique for displaying media on portable devices. The method includes painting, by a processor of a mobile device, a View container with media content to provide a View of the media content on a display of a mobile device. The processor invokes a backing activity behind the View on a z-axis of the disp...