US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for resizing applications in a multitasking view on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display" (California, Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,267, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for resizing applications in a multitasking view on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display" was invented by Imran A. Chaudhri (San Francisco), May-Li Khoe (San Francisco), Nicholas Zambetti (Largo, Fla.) and Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exemplary method performed at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display. The method includes concurrently displaying a first application and a second application on the touch-sensitive display. The method also includes detecting a first contact a...