ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,177, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Foveated display burn-in statistics and burn-in compensation systems and methods" was invented by Jim C Chou (San Jose, Calif.), Shereef Shehata (San Ramon, Calif.) and Yung-Chin Chen (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a display that display an image frame that is divided into adjustable regions having respective resolutions based on compensated image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the compensated image data by applying gains that compensate for burn-in related aging of pixels of the ...