ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,663, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Suggesting executable actions in response to detecting events" was invented by Akshay Aggarwal (San Jose, Calif.) and Pallavika Ramaswamy (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for providing, via an electronic device, suggested user actions. The suggested actions are provided in response to detecting an occurrence of a predefined event occurring in the user's day. The occurrence of the anchor is encoded in signals generated by the electronic device. The occurrence of the anchor is detectable via monitoring and analysis of electro...