ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,418, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for processing touch inputs" was invented by Aleksandr Chugunov (Cupertino, Calif.), Ari Y. Benbasat (San Jose, Calif.), Brent W. Schorsch (San Jose, Calif.), Michael T. Turner (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen C. Moseley (San Jose, Calif.), Steven S. Noble (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Giovanni M. Agnoli (San Mateo, Calif.), Jacob Z. Weiss (San Francisco), Joshua C. Weinberg (Campbell, Calif.) and Yiqiang Nie (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device detects a user input while in a lower energy consumption state. After a latency p...