ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,266, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Application relaunch optimization" was invented by Jeffrey D. Curless (Cupertino, Calif.) and Rohit Mundra (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide application relaunch optimization. Aspects of the present disclosure include deferring the termination of at least some applications notwithstanding an action taken by the user to terminate such applications. For example, a trigger event such as a deferral time can be set, prior to which the termination will take place if an additional user action occurs, and afte...