US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 11 for "Input device and user interface interactions" (California, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,436, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Input device and user interface interactions" was invented by Marcel Van Os (San Francisco), William M. Bachman (San Jose, Calif.), Elbert D. Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Jeffrey L. Robbin (Los Altos, Calif.), Joe Howard (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua McGlinn (Mooresville, N.C.), Jonathan Lochhead (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Benjamin W. Keighran (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jennifer L. C. Folse (San Francisco), Lynne Kress (Seattle), Julian Missig (Burlingame, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Alessandro Sabatelli (San Francisco) and Nicholas Zambetti (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pat...