ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,864, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Touch event model for web pages" was invented by Richard Williamson (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gregory Dennis Bolsinga (San Francisco) and Tim Omernick (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more touch input signals can be obtained from a touch sensitive device. A touch event model can be used to determine touch and/or gesture events based on the touch input signals. The touch and gesture events can be associated with touch input signals generated from different regions of a web page displayed on the touch sensitive device. Access can be provided to ...