ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,436, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for selective frame update on a display" was invented by John S. Howard (Portland, Ore.), Vishal Ravindra Sinha (Portland, Ore.) and Douglas R. Huard (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for selectively updating regions of a display are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a display engine of a computing device sends messages to a display to update particular update regions of the display. As not the entire frame is sent, sending only the update regions can save bandwidth and power. In the illustrative embodiment, some ...