ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,941, issued on April 29, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Manage overlap of actionable user interfaces and system notifications" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Lakshmana Hanuman Mahath Somina (Bangalore, India) and Priya Krishnamurthy (Mysuru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, method, and computer program product prevent inadvertent touch activation of a partially overlapped user interface (UI) element. The electronic device assigns, to a first image layer, a first UI including first UI element(s) that triggers a first response by program code when selected. The electro...