ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,488, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Noise reconstruction for image denoising" was invented by Ioannis Marras (London), Ioannis Alexiou (London), Gregory Slabaugh (London) and Stefanos Zafeiriou (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides example apparatuses, methods, and devices for denoising an image. One example apparatus performs operations including receiving an input image. A trained artificial intelligence model is implemented to form an estimate of a noise pattern in the input image and form an output image by subtracting the estimate of the noise ...