PatentBrief

Inventor

Scott Herz

Patents indexed

2

Year range

2009 – 2010

Associated with

Years active

2009 – 2010

Total patents

2

Most recent

2010

Frequent collaborator

Steven P. Jobs

Domains

consumer_electronicssoftwaretelecommunications

Activity by decade

2000s
1
2010s
1

Patents

2

US 7479949·2009·Apple Inc

How Touchscreens Tell the Difference Between Your Finger Gestures

Apple's 2009 patent describes how a touchscreen device uses clever rules, called heuristics, to figure out whether your finger movement means you want to scroll, pan, or switch items, often by looking at the very start of your touch.

US 7844915·2010·Apple Inc

Application programming interfaces for scrolling operations