ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,720, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Displaying device-usage information" was invented by Anqi Wang (Shanghai) and Ji Yeon Han (Fairview, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method may include determining one or more of (1) an amount of use of a display screen of a user's client computing device during a period of time, or (2) a frequency of unlocks of the display screen during the period of time. The method may include displaying, on a lock screen of the client computing device, one or more of: (1) the amount of use of the display screen during the period...