ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,329, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-dimensional object rearrangement" was invented by Kenneth Kocienda (San Jose, Calif.), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Gary Ian Butcher (Los Gatos, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Dylan Ross Edwards (Cupertino, Calif.), Aurelio Guzman (San Jose, Calif.) and Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes displaying a plurality of application icons for launching application programs, where the application icons occupy respective locations on a hexagonal grid and are arranged in a first configuration. An inp...