ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,501, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for messages" was invented by Christian X. Dalonzo (San Francisco), Zheng X. Hong (Arcadia, Calif.), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Grant R. Paul (San Francisco), Christopher D. Matthews (San Francisco), Kyle W. Horn (Chicago), Zuheir Chikh Al Sagha (San Francisco), Robert Garcia III (San Francisco) and Stephen M. Lottermoser (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of messaging conversations. In some embodiments, an electronic device indicates which messages ar...