ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,540, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing notifications and application information" was invented by Graham R. Clarke (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Caelan G. Stack (Belmont, Calif.), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), William M. Tyler (San Francisco) and William A. Sorrentino III (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system displays a plurality of notifications. When the computer system has a first notification mode enabled, the computer system displays a representation of the plurality of notifications in a first config...