ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,518, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Perceptual color recovery for luminance reduced displays with burn-in protection" was invented by Chenguang Liu (Tustin, Calif.), Kamal Jnawali (Tustin, Calif.), Joonsoo Kim (Irvine, Calif.) and Chang Su (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes receiving an input image associated with a media content item. The input image includes a luminance-reduced region. One or more luminance values are obtained for a channel obtained using the input image. One or more lum...