ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,097, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Synchronization of remote context data" was invented by Kartik R. Venkatraman (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Brian E. Korver (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a multi-device context store in which context attributes of multiple devices can be synchronized. A first device can transmit a predicate to a second device, where the predicate includes a condition associated with an attribute of a multi-device context store. Upon the occurrence of the condition at the second device, a notification and/or context update can ...