ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,783, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Proxy gesture recognizer" was invented by Joshua H. Shaffer (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device displays one or more views. A first view includes a plurality of gesture recognizers. The plurality of gesture recognizers in the first view includes one or more proxy gesture recognizers and one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers. Each gesture recognizer indicates one of a plurality of predefined states. A first proxy gesture recognizer in the first view indicates a state that corresponds to a state of a respective non-proxy gesture...