ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,079, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing display usage" was invented by Aurelio Guzman (San Jose, Calif.), Gary Ian Butcher (Los Gatos, Calif.), Edward Chao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Will Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Alan C. Dye (San Francisco), Kevin Lynch (Woodside, Calif.), Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Aled Hywel Williams (Salem, Great Britain) and Christopher Wilson (Sonoma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates managing display usage. In some embodiments, a device modifies various aspects of a displayed user interface as th...