US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Device, method, and graphical user interface for accessing an application in a locked device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,111, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for accessing an application in a locked device" was invented by Richard R. Dellinger (San Jose, Calif.), Nikhil Bhogal (San Francisco), Greg Christie (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott J. Forstall (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a locked, passcode-protected state, the device displays a lock screen user interface on the display. The lock screen user interface includes a plurality of restricted application launch icons, each res...