US Patent Issued to Apple on April 15 for "Interactions between an input device and an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,308, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Interactions between an input device and an electronic device" was invented by Christopher D. Soli (San Francisco), Marcos Alonso (Oakland, Calif.), Daniel T. Preston (San Jose, Calif.), Jennifer P. Chen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Peder Blekken (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments described in this disclosure are directed to displaying additional controls and/or information when an input device such as a stylus is hovering over a user interface displayed by an electronic device. Some embodiments described in this disclosure are d...