US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Providing user information in association with messaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,143, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Providing user information in association with messaging" was invented by Nicholas J. Circosta (Mountain View, Calif.), Bhaskar P. Sarma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lemont A. Washington (San Francisco), Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco), Roberto Garcia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Adam T. Binsz (San Francisco), Lilynaz A. Hashemi (San Francisco) and Pierre J. De Filippis (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system for providing information corresponding to a user in association with messaging includes a processor configured to receive, ...