ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,758, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Missed telephone call management for a portable multifunction device" was invented by Scott Forstall (Los Altos, Calif.), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Greg Christie (San Jose, Calif.), Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco), Steven P. Jobs (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gregory Novick (San Francisco) and Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device is described. A user interface is displayed while detecting an incoming call from a first phone number. In respons...