ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,524, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reduced power display power management integrated circuit" was invented by Vehbi Calayir (Santa Clara, Calif.), Weimin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Bret Rothenberg (Carmel, Calif.), Zhongyuan Ren (Cupertino, Calif.), Fenghua Zheng (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohammad Reza Esmaeili Rad (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management integrated circuit (PMIC) of an electronic display may include image data reference voltage adjustment circuitry, a negative supply voltage generator that may generate a negative supply voltage with multiple negative suppl...