ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,933, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Motion-induced blurring to reduce scintillations and an appearance of a boundary separating regions of a display" was invented by Jonathan Blair Phillips (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and devices for motion-induced blurring to reduce an appearance of a boundary separating regions of a display. Sensors (e.g., cameras, microphones, biometric sensors, ambient light sensors, radar sensors, and so forth) may be placed at least partially underneath regions of a display. Placing a sensor underneath a region of a d...