ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,526, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Self-emitting display (SED) burn-in prevention based on stationary luminance reduction" was invented by Kamal Jnawali (Tustin, Calif.), Joonsoo Kim (Irvine, Calif.), Chenguang Liu (Tustin, Calif.) and Chang Su (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes providing a dynamic list structure that stores one or more detected object bounding boxes. Temporal analysis is applied that updates the dynamic list structure with object validation to reduce temporal artifacts...