ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,974, issued on March 25, was assigned to W74 Technology LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Screen interface for a mobile device apparatus" was invented by George Andrew Gordon (Fisco, Texas), Joseph A Cerrato (Longview, Texas), Ronald A Johnston (Longview, Texas) and Kevin J Zilka (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program product are provided to: display, utilizing a display, a plurality of triggers including: a time, a location, an application, a network connectivity, a connectivity with at least one other device, and a vocal input; detect, utilizing a touch surface, a touch on at least one of the p...