ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,496, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Masashi Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiro Kosugi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a memory which temporarily stores a program of a system and programs running on the system; and a processor which executes processing based on the programs stored in the memory. The processor performs first processing to perform control between display on and display off of a display unit based on the program of the system and control the br...