ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,786, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Neural network channel-wise tiling with overlaps" was invented by Guillaume Jean Fernand Berger (Toronto), Antoine Clement Mercier (Loutraki, Greece), Yashesh Sureshchandra Savani (North York, Canada), Sunny Praful Kumar Panchal (Stoney Creek, Canada) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for processing image data. For example, a process can include receiving an input image comprising a padded image including a plurality of padding pixels located around a perimeter of the frame of image data. A plurality...