ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,951, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Structured suggestions" was invented by Daniel C. Gross (San Francisco), Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tiffany S. Jon (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device suggests contacts and calendar events for users based on their messages. The device can analyze a user's messages for contact and event information and automatically generate or update suggested contacts and calendar events for the user based on this information. The suggested contacts and calendar events can be searchable as if t...