Apple credits Jonathan Ive, Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D601,799, originally filed in September 2007.    

Apple's patent generally relates to user interfaces, and more particularly, to methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces for selecting a soft keyboard from a plurality of soft keyboards. Apple's reference to a "plurality of soft keyboards" is relating to Apple's touch sub-keyboards which allows the user to call up both a numeric based or symbols keyboard. The iPhone software keyboard is also adaptable, allowing you to switch between more than 40 international layouts.

Apple credits Kenneth Kocienda and Richard Williamson as the inventors of Granted Patent 7,602,378, originally filed in October 2006.    

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