ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,033, issued on April 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scanning image data to an array of pixels at an intermediate scan rate during a transition between different refresh rates" was invented by Chien-Hui Wen (Mountain View, Calif.), John William Kaehler (Mountain View, Calif.), Sang Young Youn (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ken Kok Foo (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in technology for operating a display device that includes a pixel array. A first frame is programmed to the array, while the display device is operati...