ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,206, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Reduced-size notification interface" was invented by Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Christopher Patrick Foss (San Francisco), Gary Ian Butcher (San Jose, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Craig M. Federighi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Lynch (Woodside, Calif.), Natalia Maric (San Francisco), Curtis A. Rothert (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Wan Si Wan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jeff Williams (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Christopher Wilson (San Francisco).
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