ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,785, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Interaction with a computing device via movement of a portion of a user interface" was invented by Vinod Govindapillai (Tampere, Finland) and Tomer Rider (Naahriya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing devices, computer-readable storage media, and methods associated with human computer interaction. In embodiments, a computing device may include a display, a processor coupled with the display, a user interface engine and one or more applications to be operated on the processor. In embodiments, the user interface engine or the one or more applications ...