ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,395, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Single contact scaling gesture" was invented by Assaf Bart (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Igor Rayboy (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing input to a computing device based on a single contact scaling gesture are provided. A scaling gesture can be performed on a touch-sensitive panel to zoom in or out of a displayed image, for example. One example of a scaling gesture can include two touch contacts moving towards or away from each other. A single contact scaling gesture can include selecting a scaling command based on...