ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,861, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic resource constraint based selective image rendering" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Eduardo Morales (Key Biscayne, Fla.), Kavitha Hassan Yogaraj (Bangalore, India) and Rahul Agarwal (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within a video frame, elements are identified. A graph is constructed for a portion of video content including the video frame. Using the graph and an excitement level corresponding to an element in the plurality of elements, the video frame is divided into an alterable region and an unal...