ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,531, issued on May 27, was assigned to PETAL CLOUD TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Application classification method, electronic device, and chip system" was invented by Yunze Wang (Dongguan, China), Xiyun Shi (Nanjing, China), Xingwen Wang (Dongguan, China) and Shidu Ye (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application classification method includes: An electronic device obtains a first touch operation performed on a first folder on a display interface, where the first folder is any folder on the display interface, and the first folder includes at least one first application; and the electronic device displays ...