ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,813, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and electronic device for controlling a display to turn on or off" was invented by Zhen Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaolong Ren (Shenzhen, China), Yongbao Yue (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoyong Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control method comprises obtaining capacitance values of a detection region of a touch panel, where a location point at which a difference between a capacitance value in the detection region and a first value exceeds a first preset threshold is a contact region, and a location point at which a differ...