ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,428, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Upscale filtering of video data" was invented by Vikrant Mahajan (Dinanagar, India), Sandeep Nellikatte Srivatsa (Bangalore, India), Ashish Mishra (Bhubaneswar, India), Apoorva Nagarajan (Bangalore, India) and Divya Goswami (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for upscale filtering video data includes one or more processors configured to generate a number of upscaled pixels that is an integer multiple of one half of a size of a filter used to upscale filter the video data. The device may then store the remaining pixels to be used to upscale filter a ...