ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,933, issued on May 13, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"User interface for media content playback" was invented by Achal Varma (London), Arjun Shantanu Narayen (San Francisco), Katherine Yi-Pin Lin (Boston), Bjorn Hakan Lindberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jason Allen Russell (Prides Crossing, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for media a simple user interface that can facilitate discovery of contextually relevant media content with minimal navigation are provided. For example, the disclosed user interface may present contextually relevant categories, sub-cate...