ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,718, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Contrast boost by machine learning" was invented by Liran Goshen (Pardes-Hanna, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training system for a target machine learning model for image enhancement and related methods. The system has a framework of two machine learning models (G1, G2) of the generative type, one such model (G1) being part of the target machine learning model. The training is based on a training data set including at least two types of training imagery, high image quality (IQ) imagery and low IQ imagery, the training input image be...