ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,517, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Display apparatus and controlling method thereof" was invented by Kwangsub Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display and a processor configured to count time for operating a screen saver after a user input is received, and based on the counted time corresponding to a threshold time, control the display to display a screen corresponding to the screen saver by operating the screen saver."
The patent was filed o...