ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,618, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Avoiding flicker in association with hotplug of a display" was invented by Chandra Mohan Konduru (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a graphics processor device that includes circuitry configured to detect a connection of a second display device to a display subsystem of the graphics processor while a first display device of the graphics subsystem is active, write pre-determined pixel data to a reserved portion of memory associated with the display subsystem, configure timings for the second display device while resources al...