ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,661, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Display control method and apparatus" was invented by Dawei Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jiejing Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control method applied to a mobile terminal, which includes a display and is coupled to an external device, includes when the mobile terminal is on a voice call, using the external device; determining that the mobile terminal is in a handheld state or a non-handheld state; when the mobile terminal is in the handheld state, controlling the display to be in a screen-on state; and when the m...