ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,703, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Denoising filter" was invented by Szabolcs Csefalvay (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel filter has a filter module that performs a first recursive filter operation in a first direction through a sequence of pixels to form a first filtered pixel value for each pixel, and performs a second recursive filter operation in a second direction through the sequence of pixels to form a second filtered pixel value for each pixel, the first and second recursive filter operations forming a respective filtered ...