PatentBrief

Inventor

Loren Brichter

Patents indexed

1

Year range

2013

Associated with

Years active

2013

Total patents

1

Most recent

2013

Domains

mobile-uxgesturesiossocial-mediainteraction-design

Activity by decade

2010s
1

Patents

1

US 8448084·2013·Twitter Inc

Pull Down to Refresh — The Gesture in Every Mobile App

Loren Brichter's pull-to-refresh gesture — invented in the Tweetie app in 2008 — is the swipe-down interaction that triggers a reload in virtually every mobile app, acquired by Twitter for $40 million.