ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,734, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Contextual conservation of energy in running applications" was invented by Sunil Gingade (Channagiri, India), Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Bangalore, India), Bhanu Prathap Velampati (Bangalore, India) and Hariharan Krishna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for contextually conserving energy in running applications is provided. The embodiment may include receiving display content and real-time data from one or more sources on a device of a user. The embodiment may also include identifying a context of one or more runnin...