US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 29 for "Separation alerts for notification while traveling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,389, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Separation alerts for notification while traveling" was invented by Benjamin A. Detwiler (Menlo Park, Calif.), Siva Ganesh Movva (Cupertino, Calif.), Katherine K. Ernst (San Francisco), Richard Akira Heru (Mountain View, Calif.), Johan O. Bergerengen (San Francisco), Langford M. Wasada (San Francisco) and Ernst Thomas Erdmann IV (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods to provide separation notifications are described. In an embodiment, movement is detected beyond a threshold distance from a trusted location, in response to the detecting, receivin...