ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,420, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interface for manipulating user interface objects with magnetic properties" was invented by Nicholas Zambetti (San Francisco), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Christopher Patrick Foss (San Francisco), Aurelio Guzman (San Jose, Calif.), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Christopher Wilson (Sonoma, Calif.), Eric Lance Wilson (San Jose, Calif.), Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Gary Ian Butcher (Los Gatos, Calif.), Nathan De Vries (Alameda, Calif.) and Jonathan P. Ive (San Jose, Calif.).
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