ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,768, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System for contextually driven, personalized, in-time utility for wearable electronic devices" was invented by Shengzhi Wu (Shenzhen, China), Diane C. Wang (San Francisco), Michael Ishigaki (Mountain View, Calif.) and Elena Jessop Nattinger (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for Contextual Alerting Functions (CAFs). CAFs are an interface paradigm for synchronized device frameworks across multi-device ecosystems and user data models. CAFs replace existing concepts such as apps and/or notifications."

The patent ...