ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,294, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MILESTONE SYSTEMS A/S (Brondby, Denmark).

"Video processing apparatus, method and computer program using image enhancement" was invented by Kamal Nasrollahi (Brondby, Denmark), Zenjie Li (Brondby, Denmark) and Carlos Fernandez De Tejada Quemada (Brondby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing apparatus configured to process a stream of video surveillance data, wherein the video surveillance data includes metadata associated with video data, the metadata describing at least one object in the video data. The apparatus comprises means for applying an image assessment algorithm t...