US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Methods and graphical user interfaces for pointing and editing on computing devices with touch-sensitive displays" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,013, issued on Sept. 16.

"Methods and graphical user interfaces for pointing and editing on computing devices with touch-sensitive displays" was invented by David Graham Boyers (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile computing device with a touch-sensitive display wherein: a pointer is displayed; a control icon is displayed; a contact on the touch-sensitive display is detected; in response to detecting a change in a horizontal position of the contact beginning anywhere on the control icon, a horizontal position of the pointer is changed; and in response to detecting a change in a vertical position of a contact beg...