US Patent Issued to Apple on July 1 for "Devices, methods, and user interfaces for interacting with user interface objects via proximity-based inputs" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,514, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and user interfaces for interacting with user interface objects via proximity-based inputs" was invented by Mark K. Hauenstein (Richmond, Great Britain), Jeffrey T. Bernstein (San Francisco), Julian Missig (Burlingame, Calif.) and Marek A. Bereza (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device with a display and sensor(s) to detect location of an input object displays a first user interface object. The device detects an input object at a first hover location that meets first hover proximity criteria with respect to the fir...