US Patent Issued to Apple on March 4 for "Displaying and moving application views on a display of an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,707, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Displaying and moving application views on a display of an electronic device" was invented by Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Taylor G. Carrigan (San Francisco), Christopher Patrick Foss (San Francisco), Ieyuki Kawashima (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Marco Triverio (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to selecting and opening applications. An electronic device includes a display and a rotatable input mechanism rotatable around a rotation axis substantially perpendicular to ...