US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Devices, methods, and systems for manipulating user interfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,145, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and systems for manipulating user interfaces" was invented by Christopher D. Soli (San Francisco), Daniel T. Preston (San Jose, Calif.) and Tiffany S. Jon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes while displaying a drawing user interface, detecting an object insertion input and, in response, inserting a respective object in the drawing user interface. The method includes, while displaying the respective object, detecting a pixel erase input, and, in response, ceasing to display a first portion of the respective object ...