US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Structured suggestions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,842, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Structured suggestions" was invented by Daniel C. Gross (San Francisco), Lawrence Y. Yang (San Francisco), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tiffany S. Jon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device suggests contacts and calendar events for users based on their messages. The device can analyze a user's messages for contact and event information and automatically generate or update suggested contacts and calendar events for the user based on this information. The suggested contacts and calendar events can be searchable as if th...