US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 18 for "Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying a vertical bar with scrollable content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,828, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying a vertical bar with scrollable content" was invented by Scott Forstall (Los Altos, Calif.), Henri C. Lamiraux (Menlo Park, Calif.), Andrew Emilio Platzer (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Matas (Healdsburg, Calif.) and Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable multifunction device. The displayed portion has a vertical position and a horizontal pos...