US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 19 for "Multifunction device with integrated search and application selection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,600, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multifunction device with integrated search and application selection" was invented by Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a multifunction device with a touch screen display and a plurality of applications concurrently displays a first plurality of application launch icons in a first area of the touch screen display, detects a first input by a user, and in response to detecting the first input by the user, displays a search input area on the touch screen display. In some embodiments, the device receives search input ...