US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "User interfaces integrating hardware buttons" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,132, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces integrating hardware buttons" was invented by Marcos Alonso (Oakland, Calif.), Johnnie B. Manzari (San Francisco) and Camille Moussette (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User interfaces integrating one or more hardware buttons are described, including camera user interfaces that perform different media capture operations (e.g., different types of captures, synthetic depth-of-field operations, and/or changes to the camera user interface) in response to presses of different buttons and/or in response to different types of button presses...