US Patent Issued to Apple on July 29 for "Devices and methods for adjusting the provision of notifications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,601, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for adjusting the provision of notifications" was invented by Heena Ko (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco) and Corey K. Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device with a display detects a plurality of manual activations of a first mode on the electronic device. The first mode, while active, prevents output of notifications when communications of a first type are received. After detecting the plurality of manual activations of the first mode, the device auto...