US Patent Issued to Google on July 22 for "Stretching content to indicate scrolling beyond the end of the content" (American, Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,954, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Stretching content to indicate scrolling beyond the end of the content" was invented by Nicholas John Bearman (London), JT DiMartile (Seattle), Selim Flavio Cinek (Zurich, Switzerland), Jorim Dorian Jaggi (Zurich, Switzerland), Michel Comin Escude (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sebastian Johannes Bauer (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure are directed to techniques that enable a computing device to provide a visual indication that there is no additional content to scroll. When a user continues to perform a scroll gesture and...