ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,531, issued on April 29, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing global dimming in artificial reality systems" was invented by Haomiao Jiang (Cupertino, Calif.), Linghui Rao (Redmond, Wash.), Tianxin Ning (San Mateo, Calif.), Weihua Gao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yongmin Park (Sammamish, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive receiving a first image frame of a sequence of image frames to be shown on a display having a plurality of backlight zones. The computing system may compute backlight unit statistics of the fi...