US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 19 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with user interface objects corresponding to applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,323, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with user interface objects corresponding to applications" was invented by William M. Tyler (San Francisco), Caelan G. Stack (Belmont, Calif.), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Christian X. Dalonzo (San Francisco), Craig M. Federighi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Alan C. Dye (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At a display of a computer system, a user interface is displayed that includes a placement location configured to spatially accommodate a respective user interface object of a pl...