ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,671, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-spatial overview mode" was invented by Alexander Friedrich Kuscher (San Francisco), Jennifer Shien-Ming Chen (San Francisco) and Sebastien Vincent Gabriel (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On a computing device, an overview mode is provided to present overview windows of all applications currently running on the computing device. When one or more applications are running in a windowed mode, a first overview window is generated for each of the one or more applications running in the windowed mode; when one or more applications are running in...