ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,544, issued on July 22, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH ZURICH (EIDGENOSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH) (Zurich).

"Kernel-based frame interpolation for spatio-temporally adaptive rendering" was invented by Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland), Karlis Martins Briedis (Zurich), Mark Meyer (Davis, Calif.), Ian McGonigal (London), Abdelaziz Djelouah (Zurich) and Raphael Francois Otriz (Dubendorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor and a memory storing software code. The processor executes the software code to receive a first rendered image having fi...