US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Electronic communication based on user input" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,039, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic communication based on user input" was invented by Freddy Allen Anzures (San Francisco), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Jose, Calif.), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Nicholas V. King (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Lynch (Woodside, Calif.), Gregory Novick (San Francisco), Daniel Trent Preston (San Jose, Calif.), Monica Jenkins (Marina Del Ray, Calif.) and Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to displaying a visual representation of ...