ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,137, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Variable brightness dimming of display peripherals" was invented by Chien-Hui Wen (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel Solomon (San Jose, 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 methods, systems, and program products for presenting display content on a display of a computing system. A method includes selecting, from a collection of luminance profiles that are each configured to reduce brightness of the display content in different manners, a first ...