US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 12 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,501, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback" was invented by Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Sebastian J. Bauer (Santa Monica, Calif.), Arian Behzadi (San Francisco) and David C. Graham (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device displays a control user interface that includes a plurality of control affordances. The device detects a first input directed to a location that corres...