ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,930, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for generating and displaying a representation of a user" was invented by Amy E. Dedonato (San Francisco), Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.), Rupert Burton (San Francisco), Dorian D. Dargan (Oakland, Calif.), Jason D. Rickwald (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Giancarlo Yerkes (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computer system displays a prompt to remove the computer system from a body of a user while the computer system is placed on the body of the user so that the computer system ca...