U.S. Patent 8479122 was awarded to Apple Inc. on 2013-07-02 and describes a “Gestures for touch sensitive input devices.” This patent has been cited 548 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative computer technology patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multipoint sensing device such as a multipoint touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multipoint sensing device, and identifying at least one multipoint gesture based on the data from the multipoint sensing device. Link: U.S. Patent 8479122

This patent was originally filed on 2004-07-30 which gives it a processing time of 3259 days, compared to an average processing time of 2019 in the field. Apple Inc. has 15027 total patents. The first named inventor is Jonathan P. Ive of SF, CA. The primary examiner was Stephen Alvesteffer.

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