ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,585, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FITBIT LLC (San Francisco).

"Notifications on a user device based on activity detected by an activity monitoring device" was invented by Timothy Roberts (San Francisco) and Nichiketa Choudhary (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and devices are provided for motion-activated display of messages on an activity monitoring device. In one embodiment, method for presenting a message on an activity monitoring device is provided, including the following method operations: downloading a plurality of messages to the device; detecting a stationary state of the device; detecting ...