ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,106, issued on May 27, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Frame sequence quality booster using information in an information repository" was invented by Yao-Sheng Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Kuei Tsung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chiani Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chao-Min Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Sheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wai Mun Wong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A booster engine enhances the quality of a frame sequence. The booster engine receives, from a first stage circuit, the frame sequence with quality degradation in at least a frame. The quality degradation includes at least one of uneven resolution and ...