US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Navigational user interfaces" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,200, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Navigational user interfaces" was invented by Edward Chao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin W. Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Yeobeen Chung (San Jose, Calif.) and Todd R. Grooms (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to navigational user interfaces, including displaying indications of locations, transitioning from displaying a watch face user interface in a first mode to displaying the watch face user interface in a second mode, displaying a navigational complication for an application, and displaying different views of i...