US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 15 for "Context based user notification adjustment and management" (Texas, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,796, issued on April 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context based user notification adjustment and management" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Logan Bailey (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment intercepts a first notification intended for a user. An embodiment identifies, by analyzing a currently occurring interaction including the user, a lull in the interaction. An embodiment delivers during the lull, the first notification to the user."

The patent was filed on Oct. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/492,926...