ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,391, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google Technology Holdings LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for communicating notifications and textual data associated with applications" was invented by Long Peng (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Hui Dai (Northbrook, Ill.) and Xin Guan (Gurnee, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for communicating notifications and other textual data associated with applications installed on an electronic device. According to certain aspects, a user can interface with an input device to send a wake up trigger to the electronic device. The electronic device retrieves application...