ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,829, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing activity information associated with user applications" was invented by James B. Cary (Mountain View, Calif.), Forest A. Hill (Lafayette, Colo.), Eugene Dvortsov (San Francisco), Michael J. Lamb (San Jose, Calif.) and John B. Rowe (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments set forth techniques for managing activity information associated with user applications. According to some embodiments, the techniques can include a method that is implemented by an activity application executing on a computing device, and includ...