ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,694, issued on April 22, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Smart visual display" was invented by Michael Shur (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computing device. The computing device is configured to couple to a display. The computing device includes an ambient detection module configured to detect a characteristic of ambient light relative to at least a portion of a display area of the display. The computing device further includes a displayed image optimization module configured to optimize a feature of at least a portion of a displayed image based, at least in part, ...