US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing concurrently open software applications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,927, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing concurrently open software applications" was invented by Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device detects a gesture on a touch-sensitive display while in an application view selection mode. In response to detecting the gesture, in accordance with a determination that the gesture starts from an edge of the touch-sensitive display and moves in a first direction, the device replaces display of at least a portion of representations of a first plurality of recently used...