Touch Era

Patents That Made Apple

The multi-touch gestures, bounce-back scrolling, and unlock metaphors that defined the iPhone era — and triggered the largest design-patent battles in tech history.

In this collection

Found 7 of 8 patents

US 7469381 · 2008 · Apple Inc

How Touchscreens Make Documents Bounce When You Scroll Too Far

US 7479949 · 2009 · Apple Inc

How Touchscreens Tell the Difference Between Your Finger Gestures

US 7657849 · 2010 · Apple Inc

How the iPhone's Slide-to-Unlock Gesture Worked

US 7663607 · 2010 · Apple Inc

Multipoint touchscreen

US 7812828 · 2010 · Apple Inc

Ellipse fitting for multi-touch surfaces

US 7844915 · 2010 · Apple Inc

Application programming interfaces for scrolling operations

US 8587547 · 2013 · Apple Inc

Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating soft keyboards

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