US Patent Issued to Apple on May 26 for "Billboard for context information sharing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,114, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Billboard for context information sharing" was invented by Helena Deirdre O'Shea (San Jose, Calif.), Matthias Sauer (San Jose, Calif.) and Jorge L. Rivera Espinoza (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a billboard circuit that stores context information received from various component circuits in an electronic device. The context information indicates an operating status of the corresponding component circuit, system or shared resources. The stored context information may be retrieved by one or more component circuits when events (...