US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Phone user interface" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,927, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Phone user interface" was invented by Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Anton M. Davydov (Gilroy, Calif.), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Dylan Ross Edwards (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Patrick Foss (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Zachery Kennedy (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device having a user interface for accessing phone features. The user interface accounts for whether the electronic device is connected to a companion cellular ...