ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,956, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Application program control method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Bingbing Bao (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application program control method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: in a case that a preset program running stop condition is satisfied, stopping the running of a target application program (101); and displaying a first preset identifier at a first preset position of a target program icon, where the target program icon is an icon corresponding to the target appl...