ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,817, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Editing interface" was invented by Imran A. Chaudhri (San Francisco), Bas Ording (San Francisco) and Steven P. Jobs (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable electronic device displays icons (e.g., graphical objects) in one or more regions of a user interface of a touch-sensitive display, and detects user input specifying an exchange of positions of icons in the user interface. In some aspects, the respective positions of two icons in a user interface can be selected to exchange positions in the one or more regions of the user interface, and o...