Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'User Interface For Manipulating User Interface Objects With Magnetic Properties' Filed by Apple Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202518094745 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Oct. 1, for 'user interface for manipulating user interface objects with magnetic properties.'

Inventor(s) include Zambetti, Nicholas; Chaudhri, Imran; Dascola, Jonathan, R.; Dye, Alan, C.; Foss, Christopher, Patrick; Guzman, Aurelio; Karunamuni, Chanaka, G.; Kerr, Duncan, Robert; Wilson, Christopher; Wilson, Eric, Lance; Yang, Lawrence, Y.; Butcher, Gary, Ian; De Vries, Nathan; and Ive, Jonathan, P.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects. A device, including a display and a rotatable input mechanism, is 5 described in relation to manipulating user interface objects. In some examples, the manipulation of the object is a scroll, zoom, or rotate of the object. In other examples, objects are selected in accordance with simulated magnetic properties."

The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 03, 2014, under International application No.PCT/US2014/053961.

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