US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 25 for "Devices, methods, and user interfaces for processing input events" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,038, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and user interfaces for processing input events" was invented by Jason Clay Beaver (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew Platzer (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system detects an input that is directed, when the input starts, to a location within a view in a user interface, and consequentially: sends to a software element associated with the view a plurality of input events, wherein each input event comprises a data structure including a phase field that describes a state of the input at a respective time, and the phase f...