ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,810, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic allocation of display pipes to external displays" was invented by Ankitkumar Navik (Valsad, India), Partha Choudhury (Portland, Ore.), Nirmala Bailur (Bangalore, India) and Sailesh Rathi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a connection of an external display to a computing system containing an internal display and activates frame buffer compression for the external display if one or more conditions are satisfied. In one example, activating frame buffer compression fo...