ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,836, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Canned answers in messages" was invented by Giulia Pagallo (Cupertino, Calif.), Jerome Rene Bellagarda (Saratoga, Calif.), Roberto Garcia (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tiffany S. Jon (Cupertino, Calif.), Linden B. Siahaan (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Justin Wood (Los Altos, Calif.) and Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, display a message transcript, where the message transcript includes at least one message from at least a first user. Determine, based at least in-part on the at least one mess...