US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Blitting a locked object" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,603, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Blitting a locked object" was invented by Thomas G. Salter (Foster City, Calif.) and Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter (Boulder Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed at an electronic device with a controller and a display. The method includes identifying, within a first memory, a first object that satisfies a locked criterion. For example, the first object corresponds to a head-locked object or a body-locked object. The first object is associated with a first plurality of pixel values. The method includes blitting, via the controller, the ...