ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,599, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems for enabling quick interactions with a user's frequent contacts from within a watch-face user interface of a wrist-wearable device and methods of use thereof" was invented by Willy Huang (San Francisco), Yana Azova (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Christine Eun (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Paul Hamilton (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enabling quick interactions with a user's frequent contacts from a wrist-wearable device. The method includes displaying, at a wrist-wearable device, a user interface inc...