ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,143, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating and providing intelligent time to leave reminders" was invented by Daniel C. Gross (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying on an electronic device an identifier and an associated time, date, or time and date, wherein the identifier is a name of an entity that a user is scheduled to visit at the associated time, date, or time and date. Determining, at around the time, date, or time and date, using a location sensor, a location of the electronic device as an entity address. Associating th...