ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,611, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Alarms for a system of smart media playback devices" was invented by Thomas M. Alsina (Cupertino, Calif.), David C. Graham (Campbell, Calif.), Andrew M. Wadycki (Santa Clara, Calif.), Edward T. Schmidt (Santa Clara, Calif.), Joel M. Lopes Da Silva (San Francisco), Richard M. Powell (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gregory R. Chapman (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides for a media playback device comprising a memory device to store instructions; one or more processors to execute the instructions stored on the memory device, the ins...