ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,164, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Syncing objects for multidevice synchronization" was invented by David T. Wilson (Bethel, Vt.), Pratik Solanki (San Jose, Calif.), Vishani Kankariya (Cupertino, Calif.), Netra S. Kenkarey (Milpitas, Calif.) and Maher S. Tantawy (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user device associated with a user profile can receive a health database associated with the user profile from a service provider configured to store the health database. The first user device can receive first health information associated with the user profile. The first user d...