ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,929, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and systems of user interfaces for providing updated location information" was invented by Pablo F. Caro (San Francisco), Kaely Coon (San Francisco), Frank De Jong (San Francisco), Vitalii Kramar (Woodinville, Wash.), Siva Ganesh Movva (San Jose, Calif.) and Caelan G. Stack (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for establishing communications. A computer system automatically transmits updated location information after communication with a first communication network is initi...