ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,108, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for performing operations" was invented by Arian Behzadi (San Francisco), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Andrew S. Kim (Walnut Creek, Calif.), David A. Krimsley (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher D. Matthews (San Francisco) and Corey K. Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces and techniques for performing one or more operations in accordance with some examples, such as displaying user interfaces and/or configuring a device to perform a respective operation."

The pat...