ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,376, issued on April 22, was assigned to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for animating always on displays at variable frame rates" was invented by Michiaki Kono (New York), Dalton Thorn Flanagan (New York) and Allan Velzy (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) transferring control of a display of a computing device from a high-power physical processor of the computing device to a low-power physical processor of the computing device, (2) animating, using the low-power physical processor, the display at a first frame ra...