ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,079, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for adjusting the provision of notifications" was invented by David C. Graham (Columbus, Ohio), Heena Ko (San Francisco), Caelan G. Stack (Belmont, Calif.), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Justin S. Titi (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Matthew E. Shepherd (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system detects a first input requesting display of a home screen of the computer system, and in response, in accordance with a determination that a first activity mode is active on the computer system,...