US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for an email client" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,596, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for an email client" was invented by Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed for use with a portable electronic device having a display. The method enables switching between electronic inboxes that can be accessed from the electronic device. In some configurations, the method includes, while the device is displaying emails in a first inbox, detecting user selection of a first icon. The met...