ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,016, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Presence-detection modes for display devices" was invented by Aditya V Padaki (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Sanaka (San Jose, Calif.), Raghunandan M Rao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zheda Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu (Mountain View, Calif.), Fnu Rohit Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Sai Prashanth Chinnapalli (Dublin, Calif.), Vivek Yenamandra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Niranjan Thontadarya (San Jose, Calif.), Maqsood Ahamed Abdul Careem (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Siddharth Sharma (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, i...