US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on June 24 for "Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,072, issued on June 24, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and program" was invented by Kakeru Yamashita (Fussa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display, a touch panel for detecting a user operation, and a controller. The controller determines, in response to detecting a swipe operation while an entry word is displayed on the display, whether or not a detected location of the swipe operation is within a predetermined area of the touch panel. If the detected location is determined to be within t...