US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing a lock screen flashlight" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,713, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing a lock screen flashlight" was invented by Nathan Devries (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device displays on a display device, a user interface including a first user interface element, the first user interface element being associated with the illumination element, and detects a first input at a location corresponding to the first user interface element. In response to detecting the first input and in accordance with a determination that the first input meets first criter...