ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,669, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Display panel brightness control based on gaussian edges" was invented by Mario Miscuglio (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yang Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Snehal T Jariwala (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Qiao (San Jose, Calif.), Jean-Pierre S Guillou (La Jolla, Calif.), Jenny Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ming Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Wanqing Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Zuo Xia (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Won Ryu (Santa Jose, Calif.), Graeme M Williams (San Diego) and Kingsuk Brahma (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described ...