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US 7434177

How the Apple Mac Dock Magnifies Icons

Apple's 1999 patent on the macOS Dock, which shrinks a row of app icons to save screen space and smoothly magnifies them as your mouse pointer glides over them.

Statusactive

Granted2008

Expires2019

Claims140

Forward citations232

Prior art44

AssigneeApple Inc

InventorsDonald J. Lindsay, Bas Ording +1

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