ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,559, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Graphic display method and apparatus" was invented by Simon Ekstrand (Eslov, Sweden), Fredrik Andreasson (Lund, Sweden), Johan Larsby (Lund, Sweden), Xueyan Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Bo Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphic display method and apparatus are provided. In the graphic display method, a terminal may detect a touch operation on a screen when there is a to-be-processed event; obtain touch point coordinates of the touch operation; display, in a position indicated by the touch point coordinates, a touch graphic us...