US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Device, method, and graphical user interface for navigation of concurrently open software applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,569, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for navigation of concurrently open software applications" was invented by Kenneth Kocienda (San Jose, Calif.) and Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display and one or more programs stored in memory for execution by one or more processors. The one or more programs include instructions for displaying a first application view that corresponds to a first application in a plurality of concurrently open applications. The one or more programs include i...