ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,116, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device having integrated interface system" was invented by Christiaan A Ligtenberg (San Carlos, Calif.), Brett W. Degner (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ron A. Hopkinson (Campbell, Calif.), Asif Hussain (San Jose, Calif.), Dinesh C. Mathew (San Francisco), Mikael M. Silvanto (San Francisco), Chang Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Zheng Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robert Y. Cao (San Francisco), Keith J. Hendren (San Francisco), Bryan W. Posner (LaSelva Beach, Calif.), Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque (San Jose, Calif.) and Alex J. Lehmann (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A...