US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Systems and methods for proactively providing recommendations to a user of a computing device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,782, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for proactively providing recommendations to a user of a computing device" was invented by Colin Morris (Cupertino, Calif.), Peter J. Scott (Cupertino, Calif.), Craig M. Federighi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Daniel C. Gross (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments described herein set forth techniques for identifying when a user activates a search application on his or her mobile computing device, and presenting, prior to receiving an input of search parameters from the user, a prediction of one or more applications...