ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,595, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for combining multiple applications and simultaneously starting multiple applications, and electronic device" was invented by Chao Liu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for combining and simultaneously starting a plurality of applications. In one example method, a plurality of applications are combined to generate a combined application. A user taps an icon of the combined application to simultaneously start and run an interface of each of the plurality of applications. Start...