14 DAY TRIAL // The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Apple a patent for the "core iPhone multi-touch", a move that solidifies the Cupertino tech giant’s position against competitors like Samsung Electronics and Google whose products heavily rely on the technology.
Multi-Touch is just one of about 200 innovations Apple filed patents for in 2007, when the first iPhone was introduced, as outlined by Pocketnow.
Apple’s touch-sensing invention was described as "sensing a plurality of events occurring simultaneously or nearly simultaneously on an event-sensing panel", which pretty much applies to any smartphone with touch-centric features.
The only question is: will Apple use this in courts at the risk of having Google & Friends summon an array of patents that its own products infringe upon?
Maybe. The never-ending patent war between technology giants nowadays is just that: never-ending.