US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Dec. 16 for "Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for reducing inadvertent user interface interactions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,973, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for reducing inadvertent user interface interactions" was invented by John W. Nicholson (Cary, N.C.), Daryl C. Cromer (Raleigh, N.C.), Howard Locker (Cary, N.C.) and Mengnan Wang (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, communication devices, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for preventing unintentional outgoing communications initiated from a communication device. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request via a first input device to initiate a communication...