ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,534, issued on Feb. 10.
"Display with localized brightness adjustment capabilities" was invented by Koorosh Aflatooni (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Minhyuk Choi (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammad Ali Jangda (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sang Y. Youn (Cupertino, Calif.), Yafei Bi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Jean-Pierre Guillou (La Jolla, Calif.) and Wei H. Yao (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. ...