ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,635, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for navigating between user interfaces and interacting with control objects" was invented by Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Marcos Alonso Ruiz (Oakland, Calif.), Nathan de Vries (Alameda, Calif.), Brandon M. Walkin (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Caelan G. Stack (Belmont, Calif.), Jeffrey T. Bernstein (San Francisco), Julian K. Missig (Burlingame, Calif.) and Linda L. Dong (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device respon...