US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Context-specific user interfaces" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,013, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Context-specific user interfaces" was invented by Christopher Wilson (San Francisco), Gary Ian Butcher (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Will Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Aurelio Guzman (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Jose, Calif.), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Kenneth Kocienda (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Lynch (Woodside, Calif.), Pedro Mari (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Alessandro Sabatelli (San Francisco), Brian Schmitt (Venice, Calif.), Eric Lance Wilson (San Jose, Calif.) and Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* rel...