US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 17 for "Systems and methods for interacting with displayed items" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,853, issued on March 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for interacting with displayed items" was invented by Henrik Hegner Tomra Skovsgaard (Kilchberg, Switzerland) and Lars Anders Bond (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for interacting with displayed items. A contact point can be established with a surface of a contact panel and the contact panel can be operated in a navigation mode during which a selection element, for selecting one or more items of a user interface (UI) in a display of a second de...