US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Device, method, and graphical user interface for accessing an application in a locked device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,872, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for accessing an application in a locked device" was invented by Richard R. Dellinger (San Jose, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Gregory Christie (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott Forstall (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device with a touch sensitive display and a plurality of applications, including a camera application, while the device is in a locked, passcode-protected state: displays a lock screen interface, the lock screen interface including a camera access indicia; detects a gesture; in...