ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,774, issued on July 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enhanced views and notifications of location and calendar information" was invented by Lawrence Fubini Waldman (Kirkland, Wash.) and Mabel Tang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides enhanced views and notifications of user location and calendar information. A system can analyze and display location data of one or more people with calendar data specifying locations and times of events. A user interface showing the location of one or more people displayed with details of each person's calendar allows computer users to ...