ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,505, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User interfaces for location-related communications" was invented by Arian Behzadi (San Francisco), Frank De Jong (San Francisco), Rachel Needle (New York), Nicole R. Ryan (San Francisco), Katie Skinner (San Francisco), Hannah S. Story (San Mateo, Calif.), Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Patrick L Coffman (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to managing location-related communications of an electronic device associated with a user account."
The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2022, under Application No. 17/...