ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,206, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Program setting adjustments based on activity identification" was invented by Philippe Richard Kahn (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Arthur Kinsolving (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Mark Andrew Christensen (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Brian Y. Lee (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and David Vogel (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device monitors accelerations using a motion sensor. The electronic device determines a current motion state based on the accelerations. The electronic device identifies a plurality of applications that subscribe to a motion state...