ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,330, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and user interfaces for providing audio notifications" was invented by Devin W. Chalmers (Oakland, Calif.), Sean B. Kelly (San Francisco) and Karlin Y. Bark (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device that is in communication with one or more wearable audio output devices detects occurrence of one or more first event while the one or more wearable audio output devices are being worn by a user. In response, the electronic device outputs, via the one or more wearable audio output devices, audio content corresponding to t...