US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 27 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing a home button replacement" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,892, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing a home button replacement" was invented by Julian K. Missig (Burlingame, Calif.), Rachel L. Ciavarella (Pompton Plains, N.J.), Jeffrey Traer Bernstein (San Francisco) and Linda L. Dong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device with a display and an embedded fingerprint sensor displays a lock screen on the display. While displaying the lock screen, the electronic device detects a first touch input on the embedded fingerprint sensor. In response to detecting the first touch inpu...