US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for selecting and interacting with different device modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,339, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for selecting and interacting with different device modes" was invented by Marcel van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Donald W. Pitschel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed at a mobile device with a display. The method includes displaying a first mode of a plurality of modes of the device. The first mode of the device is active when a first set of time and/or device location criteria are met and the second mode of the device is active when a second set of time and/or device location crit...