ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,737, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Determining relevant information based on third party information and user interactions" was invented by Giovanni M. Agnoli (San Mateo, Calif.), Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Conrad B. Kramer (San Francisco), Kyle T. Howarth (San Jose, Calif.), William C. MacCartney (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua R. Ford (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paul W. Salzman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ari R. Weinstein (San Francisco), Roozbeh Mahdavian (Trubuco Canyon, Calif.), Joshua C. Weinberg (Campbell, Calif.) and Jared K. McGann (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system f...