ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,049, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Yoshinori Ito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuichi Sone (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus switches between a first display mode for one display area and a second display mode for first and second display areas, and when switching from the first display mode to the second display mode is performed, displays a first window having a highest display priority of applications being executed in the first display mode, in the first display area and ...