ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,252, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to West Texas Technology Partners LLC (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for manipulating content in an interface" was invented by Michael Lamberty (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine implemented method includes sensing entities in first and second domains. If a first stimulus is present and an entity is in the first domain, the entity is transferred from first to second domain via a bridge. If a second stimulus is present and an entity is in the second domain, the entity is transferred from second first domain via the bridge. At least some of the first domain is outputted....