ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,918, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Activity and workout updates" was invented by Aled Hywel Williams (Llandeilo, Great Britain), David Chance Graham (Columbus, Ohio) and Christopher Wilson (Sonoma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to navigating, viewing, and sharing activity and workout data and interacting with workout and/or activity applications. In some examples, scrolling of activity data is based on the content being displayed. In some examples, friends' activity data may be viewed. In some examples, a notification and workout data for a friend'...