ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,841, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context-aware cueing for daily interactions, navigation, and accessibility" was invented by Fang Lu (Billerica, Mass.), Jana H. Jenkins (Raleigh, N.C.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas) and Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing context-aware cueing for daily interactions, navigation, and accessibility is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes receiving routine data describing routine-based tasks associated with a user. The method further receives interaction data describing current int...