ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,918, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs" was invented by Benjamin J. Pope (Woodside, Calif.), Daniel W. Jarvis (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas G. Merz (Menlo Park, Calif.), Scott A. Myers (Saratoga, Calif.), Michael A. Cretella (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Eng (San Jose, Calif.), James H. Foster (Oxford, Great Britain), Terry L. Gilton (Cupertino, Calif.), Myra Haggerty (San Mateo, Calif.), Byron B. Han (San Jose, Calif.), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Steven P. Hotelling (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Brian R. Land (Woodside, Calif.), Stephen Br...