ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,669, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Noise control in horizontal blanking periods" was invented by Vasudha Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Arie Yehuda Gur (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Eli Barel (RoshHaayin, Israel), Yichen Tang (Redmond, Wash.) and Kyle William Hershey (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device initiates a scan of a display frame in the display, the scan displaying a sequence of display rows from a starting point of the frame to an ending point of the display frame. A horizontal blanking period is positioned in time between each display row during which displ...