ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,533, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Efficient image demosaicing and local contrast enhancement" was invented by Wenyi Zhao (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method includes receiving a frame of raw pixels captured by an image capture sensor, a particular location in the frame of raw pixels including a captured color pixel value of a first color component of a first color space; generating, for the particular location in the frame of raw pixels, a vertical color difference signal and a horizontal color difference signal using information from the frame ...