ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,659, issued on March 25, was assigned to ASML Netherlands B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Aligning a distorted image" was invented by Coen Adrianus Verschuren (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Scott Anderson Middlebrooks (Duizel, Netherlands) and Maxim Pisarenco (Son en Breugel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an optimized weighting of an encoder and decoder network; the method comprising: for each of a plurality of test weightings, performing the following steps with the encoder and decoder operating using the test weighting: (a) encoding, using the encoder, a reference image and a distorted image into a...