ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,835, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Detecting the end of hiking activities on a wearable device" was invented by Gunes Dervisoglu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hung A. Pham (Oakland, Calif.), Bharath Narasimha Rao (Mountain View, Calif.), James P. Ochs (San Francisco), Erin Paeng (Portland, Ore.), Jonathan M. Beard (San Jose, Calif.), Vinay R. Majjigi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include wearable devices and techniques for detecting the end of hiking activities. By accurately and promptly detecting the e...