# Steven P. Jobs — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Steven P. Jobs has 2 landmark patents explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Touchscreens Understand Your Finger Swipes and Scrolls](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/7479949/iphone-multi-touch) — granted 2009
  This patent describes how touchscreens use smart rules, called heuristics, to figure out if your finger movement means scrolling up, moving around a map, or flipping to the next photo, especially by looking at how you start your swipe.
- [How the Apple Mac Dock Magnifies Icons](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/7434177/itunes-digital-music-store) — granted 2008
  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.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/steven-p-jobs

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_Source: PatentBrief — https://patentbrief.org. Plain-English explanations of US patents._