ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,763, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power-efficient dynamic application content display for electronic devices" was invented by Kartik R. Venkatraman (San Francisco), Manish Chandra Reddy Ravula (Cupertino, Calif.) and Roberto Alvarez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to power consuming processes of electronic devices. For example, an electronic device may create, initiate, and/or modify a power consuming process of the electronic device, based in part on user power consumption information that indicates a typical amount of power consumed by a use...