ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,000, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User input interfaces" was invented by Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Kristin Michele Canavan (San Francisco), Bryant A. Jow (San Mateo, Calif.), Aram D. Kudurshian (San Francisco), Pavel Pivonka (San Francisco) and Brandon Walkin (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to managing user inputs. In some examples, devices receive user inputs via a biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint sensor. In some examples, devices receive user inputs via a button. In some examples, devices receive user inputs via touch se...