US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 25 for "Navigating user interfaces with multiple navigation modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,388, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Navigating user interfaces with multiple navigation modes" was invented by Christopher J. Sanders (San Jose, Calif.), Dennis S. Park (San Francisco), Neil P. Cormican (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ada Turner (Milpitas, Calif.) and Dale A. Taylor (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a user interface displayed by a first electronic device is navigated with a first mode of navigation when touch input at a touch-sensitive surface of a second electronic device satisfies one or more criteria, and is navigated with a second mode of navigation...