ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,105, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas) and Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Image upsampling" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Qian Lin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jan Allebach (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a feature extraction engine to identify features in a compressed image at a plurality of scales. The features include features corresponding to compression artifacts and features corresponding to image content to be upsampled. The feature extraction engine is to identify the features in the compress...