US Patent Issued to Apple on April 15 for "Utilizing context information with an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,918, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Utilizing context information with an electronic device" was invented by Golnaz Abdollahian (San Francisco), Krishna Dayanidhi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Patrick T. Dillon (Fremont, Calif.) and Aaron R. Zinman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of context information by an electronic device. In one example, the electronic device receives a first notification of a first type and determines a current status for one or more contextual categories. If the current status for the one or more contextual ca...