ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,704, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Event recognition" was invented by Joshua H. Shaffer (Woodside, Calif.), Kenneth L. Kocienda (San Jose, Calif.) and Imran A. Chaudhri (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprising one or more touches on a region of the touchscreen display that includes the application content of the first application. In response to detecting the input comprising the one or more touches, the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that the one or more touches correspond to a system gesture for switching applications, replaces display...