US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,662, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback" was invented by Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Marcos Alonso Ruiz (Oakland, Calif.), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gregory M. Apodaca (Colbert, Wash.), Wan Si Wan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kenneth L Kocienda (San Jose, Calif.), Sebastian J. Bauer (Santa Monica, Calif.), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco) and Jonathan Ive (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Offic...