ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,263, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Augmentation based on physical environment context" was invented by Lilli I. Jonsson (Saratoga, Calif.), Mikaela D. Estep (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Paul Ewers (San Francisco) and Theodore Nestor Panagiotopoulos (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that filter notifications and other augmentations based on the context of the physical environment for which the augmentations are provided. In addition to context, the filtering may be determined based on user input, for example, bas...