ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,173, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Frame rate switching method and apparatus" was invented by Lifeng Cai (Shenzhen, China), Kai Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Xuechen Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a frame rate switching method and apparatus, applied to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes: drawing and rendering, by an application thread, a first image frame at a frame interval corresponding to a first frame rate in a first period; drawing and rendering, by the application thread, a second image frame at a frame...