ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,101, issued on July 7, was assigned to Resideo USA LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Method for adjusting brightness of an electronic visual display" was invented by Xuemei Wu (Golden Valley, Minn.), Silver Yang (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Yanli Wang (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting brightness of an electronic visual display of an electronic device, comprising: identifying a luminance-indicating area in a field of view of an image sensor of the electronic device; capturing at least one first image of the field of view by the image sensor; determining an ambient luminance value for the electronic vi...