ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,981, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multidevice notification synchronization" was invented by Matthew Barker (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nathan G. Racklyeft (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second computing device can receive a hold instruction from a first computing device. The hold instruction can instruct the second computing device to hold a second notification until the second computing device receives first health information. The first computing device can be configured to transmit the hold instruction based on rescheduling a first notification on the first computing device to...