ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,140, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interfaces for facilitating operations" was invented by Taylor G. Carrigan (San Francisco) and Kevin M. Lynch (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for facilitating operations. In some examples, computer systems provide indications that educate and/or guide users for performing an operation. In some examples, computer systems perform a first operation based on a first type of user input corresponding to a first hardware input device and perform a second operation based on a second type...