ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,697, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Products IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to perform platform agnostic control of a display using a hardware agent" was invented by Subrata Banik (Bangalore, India), Kunjal Parikh (Fremont, Calif.), Rajesh Poornachandran (Portland, Ore.), Maulik Vaghela (Bhavnagar, India) and Vincent Zimmer (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to perform platform agnostic control of a display using a hardware agent are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; instructions in the apparatus; and hardware agent to e...