US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 3 for "Methods and systems for disabling sleep alarm based on automated wake detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,047, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for disabling sleep alarm based on automated wake detection" was invented by Bharath Narasimha Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kevin Will Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Reed E. Olsen (San Jose, Calif.), Umamahesh Srinivas (Milpitas, Calif.), Kevin M. Lynch (Woodside, Calif.) and John-Peter E. Cafaro (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for facilitating disabling an alarm in response to particular types of activity-indicative data. More specifically, activity-indicative data (e.g., measurements obtained by an electronic ...