ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,716, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Machine learning based temporal stabilization of images" was invented by Stone Yun (Toronto), Alireza Shoa Hassani Lashdan (Burlington, Canada), Sivakumar Chidambaram (Stouffville, Canada) and Darren Gnanapragasam (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for image processing. For instance, a process can include generating motion vectors representing differences between a past image of a video and a current image of a video, wherein the current image occurs after the past image in the video, wherein the motion vectors are gene...