ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,598, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Display method and electronic device" was invented by Min Wang (Shenzhen, China), Shuai Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Xu Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Bing Xie (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display method and an electronic device provide icon animation and starting window image decoding that can be performed in parallel. After a launch operation is detected, an application launch animation may start to be displayed, thus reducing waiting latency and improving user experience."

The patent was filed on Nov. 28, 2023, under Application ...