US Patent Issued on June 24 for "Method and graphical user interface for positioning a preselection and selecting on a computing device with a touch-sensitive display" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,067, issued on June 24.

"Method and graphical user interface for positioning a preselection and selecting on a computing device with a touch-sensitive display" was invented by David Graham Boyers (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising: at a computing device with a touch-sensitive display: displaying a control icon; displaying an item preselection mark at a position of an item in a list of items; detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive display; and-in response to detecting a change in a position of the contact beginning anywhere on the control icon, changing in a number of discrete steps the position...