ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,872, issued on July 22, was assigned to KAKADU R&D PTY LTD (Glebe, Australia).

"Method and apparatus for communicating and recovering motion information" was invented by David Scott Taubman (Redfern, Australia) and Aous Thabit Naman (Oxley Park, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for comparing two images to determine a set of likelihood ratios for each resolution level are described. Each location within the resolution level has its own likelihood ratio that expresses the probability that spatial features of the two images are matched, divided by the probability that spatial features of the two images ar...