ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,534, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Balancing alternate frame times on a variable refresh rate display" was invented by Gary K. Smith (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Santosh K. Agrawal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a new frame is to be presented on a display. A frame time is predicted for the new frame along with a current balance for a set of previously presented frames. A frame pattern for the new frame is determined based on the predicted frame time and the current balance."

The patent was filed on Dec. 7, 2020, under Application No. 17/114,435.

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