ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,313, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Contextual response suggestions using secondary electronic device" was invented by Alan S. Hshieh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Titus J. Amundson (North Bend, Wash.), Ramzi Assaf (Cupertino, Calif.), McKay Clawson (Cambridge, Mass.), Niranjan Jayadevaprakash (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sahil A. Jayaram (Los Altos, Calif.), Rhea K. Le (San Jose, Calif.), Elizabeth A. Ottens (San Francisco) and Nathan M. Paczan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for contextual message suggestions are provided. In some embodiments, a first electronic device rec...