ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,683, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Presence-detection modes for display devices" was invented by Zheda Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Sai Prashanth Chinnapalli (Dublin, Calif.), Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu (Mountain View, Calif.), Aditya V Padaki (San Jose, Calif.), Fnu Rohit Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Vivek Yenamandra (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for using presence detection in order to switch between power modes of a display device. For instance, the display device may operate in a first power mode by deactivating a display. Whi...