ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,045, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wearable device used as digital pool attendant" was invented by Biljana Badic (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for a wearable device used as a digital pool attendant. In some embodiments, a method comprises: determining, with at least one processor of a wearable device, whether a user is swimming or not swimming based on sensor data; in accordance with the user not swimming, determining with the at least one processor and based on the sensor data, whether the user is showing regular or irregular behavior while swimming; and in acc...