ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,180, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"RGB-NIR processing and calibration" was invented by Yarden Sharabi (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Doron Sabo (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Roee Sfaradi (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Shachar Praisler (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Stas Dubinchik (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Michael Dinerstein (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Sapir Kontente (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing images acquired by a multi-spectral RGB-NIR (red/green/blue/near infra-red) sensor includes receiving a RGB-NIR digital image from a multi-spectral RGB-NIR sensor, interpolating an NIR contribu...