ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,677, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in mobile device" was invented by Byeong Do Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sung Min Cho (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus capable of minimizing power consumption occurring when a mobile device is changed from a sleep state to a wake-up state by partially controlling on/off of a display unit and partial booting control of a system function are provided. The method includes detecting a change of the mobile device from a sleep state to a wake-up state,...