US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for accessing notifications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,599, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for accessing notifications" was invented by William M. Tyler (San Francisco), Chanaka G. Karunamuni (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher P. Foss (San Francisco), Marcos Alonso Ruiz (Oakland, Calif.), Stephen O. Lemay (Palo Alto, Calif.), Caelan G. Stack (Belmont, Calif.) and Nathan de Vries (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device concurrently displays a first user interface of first software and status information for an application that is different from the first software. The status inf...