ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,056, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Raw scaler with chromatic aberration correction" was invented by Guy Cote (San Jose, Calif.), Simon Wolfenden Butler (San Rafael, Calif.), Joseph Anthony Petolino Jr. (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Joseph P. Bratt (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for down-scaling are provided. In one example, a method for processing image data includes determining a plurality of output pixel locations using a position value stored by a position register, using the current position value to select a center input pixel from the image data and selecting...