ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,336, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Display flicker mitigation via ambient light sensor" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh-HaAyin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for display flicker mitigation includes, at an ambient light sensor (ALS) of a touch-sensitive display device, detecting a display flicker condition affecting a touch-sensitive display of the touch-sensitive display device. One or more flicker mitigation operations are applied to alleviate the display flicker condition based at least in part on one or more flicker mitigation parameters."

The paten...