ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,657, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Theme wallpaper generation method and electronic device" was invented by Minhao Li (Shanghai), Miao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Changjian Chen (Nanjing, China) and Bo Xu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the method, an effect of dynamic linkage in a process of switching from an always on display screen to a lock screen interface and then to an unlock interface is presented to the user based on an image processing process customized by the user, such as detection and identification of the picture and image cropping of a target element...