ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,737, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Global nonlinear scaler for multiple pixel gamma response compensation" was invented by Mario Miscuglio (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kingsuk Brahma (Mountain View, Calif.), Jie Won Ryu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shengkui Gao (Shoreline, Wash.), Yuchi Che (Santa Clara, Calif.), Graeme M Williams (San Diego), Yi Qiao (San Jose, Calif.), Wei H Yao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jean-Pierre S Guillou (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a display characterized by regions with different pixel responses due, for example, to local pixel density variation, voltage-to-lumina...