ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,569, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Score based wellness coaching" was invented by Taido L. Nakajima (San Jose, Calif.), Bryan J. James (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Barker N. Bhaskaran (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method using a wearable device comprising collecting sensor data generated from one or more sensors of the wearable device and identifying a prompt for the user to engage in a wellness-related activity at a time for presentation, and presenting the prompt at the time for presentation. The method also includes determining that the wearable device is n...