ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,631, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Displaying application views" was invented by Edward Chao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Taylor G. Carrigan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, a request to display a set of application views. In response to receiving the request to display a set of application views, a set of application views is displayed. The set of application views includes a first application view that corresponds to a first application that is not in an active session, and the set of application views are arranged in an order of application views. Displayin...