ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,641, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Detection of a malfunctioning display using power measurement" was invented by Junghoon Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Chulmin Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kugjin Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Daehyoun Byoun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes determining a size of a display area of a display panel on which one or more images are being displayed, determining a threshold current value based on the size, measuring a first current drawn by the display panel, determini...