US Patent Issued to Apple on March 4 for "Device, method, and graphical user interface for using emoji characters with user-defined gestures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,718, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for using emoji characters with user-defined gestures" was invented by Bradford Allen Moore (San Francisco), Bas Ording (San Francisco), Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill (San Francisco), Stephen J. Chick (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kenneth Kocienda (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, a portable electronic device includes: a display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed b...