US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Electronic message user interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,717, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic message user interface" was invented by Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Christopher Patrick Foss (San Francisco), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco) and Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for electronic message user interfaces. In particular, the technique displays, on a display, an electronic message user interface and receives user input from a touch-sensitive surface, a rotatable input mechanism, and/or peripherals such as a microphone to access, compose, and manipulate electronic...