US Patent Issued to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION on March 17 for "Application icon control method and apparatus, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,843, issued on March 17, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Application icon control method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Weijian Liao (Dongguan, China) and Qiuju Liu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application icon control method and apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: receiving a first input on a first blank display region in a target page; and controlling, in response to the first input, at least one application icon located in a first icon region to move to the first blank display region. The first icon region is loc...