ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,705, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic user-device upscaling of media streams" was invented by Perry Victor Lea (Eagle, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method disclosed herein provides for receiving, at a user device, a media stream including frames of a first resolution generated by a graphics-rendering application and utilizing one or more weight matrices pre-trained in association with the graphics-rendering application to locally upscale each received frame of the media stream at the user device to a second resolution greater than the first resolution. Local up...