ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,936, issued on Jan. 27.
"Intelligent adjustment of screen refresh rate" was invented by Ashish Ranjan (Boise, Idaho), Carly M. Wantulok (Boise, Idaho), Prateek Trivedi (Boise, Idaho), Carla L. Christensen (Boise, Idaho), Jun Huang (Boise, Idaho) and Avani F. Trivedi (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices that support a dynamic screen refresh rate are described. An electronic device may dynamically (e.g., autonomously, while operating) adjust the rate at which a screen is refreshed, such as to balance considerations such as user experience and power consumption by the electronic device. For example,...