ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,511, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Methods and systems of interfaces for initiating communications using terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks" was invented by Pablo F. Caro (San Francisco), Kaely Coon (San Francisco), William B. Easley III (Cupertino, Calif.), Craig M. Federighi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Travis Jones (San Francisco) and Vitalii Kramar (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for establishing communications. In response to detecting user input corresponding to a request to initiate a communica...