ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,546, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing program" was invented by Yuji Onozawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuo Fukushima (Kanagawa, Japan), Takafumi Haruta (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohei Makino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, an instruction to execute a function is completed and the function is executed by performing a movement operation, such as dragging or sliding a slide mark to an end portion of a movement area while touching the slide mark with a finger and then releasing the finger. Continuing the touch on t...