US Patent Issued to Apple on March 31 for "Reduced-size interfaces for managing alerts" (California, Washington, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,329, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reduced-size interfaces for managing alerts" was invented by Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Christopher Patrick Foss (San Francisco), Jonathan R. Dascola (San Francisco), Imran Chaudhri (San Francisco), Gary Ian Butcher (Los Gatos, Calif.), David Chance Graham (Columbus, Ohio), Jonathan P. Ive (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Lynch (Woodside, Calif.) and Natalia Maric (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more alerts are received at the electronic device. In some embodiments, the d...