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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Biljana Badic, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/08 (2006.01); G08B 31/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/088 (2013.01); G08B 31/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments are disclosed for a wearable device used as a digital pool attendant. In some embodiments, a method comprises: determining, with at least one processor of a wearable device, whether a user is swimming or not swimming based on sensor data; in accordance with the user not swimming, determining with the at least one processor and based on the sensor data, whether the user is showing regular or irregular behavior while swimming; and in accordance with the user showing irregular behavior, sending an alert message from the water over air to one or more other devices.