ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,216, issued on May 27, was assigned to DENSO WAVE Inc. (Aichi-pref., Japan) and DENSO IT LABORATORY INC. (Tokyo).

"Image restoration device, image restoration method, and image restoration program" was invented by Yusuke Sekikawa (Tokyo) and Yang Shi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image restoration device has an initialization block that initializes the luminance value of each pixel coordinate to an intermediate value in the luminance array list that stores one of a pair of polarity values and intermediate values as the luminance value for each pixel coordinate. The image restoration device also has an update block that up...