ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,075, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Restoring images using deconvolution" was invented by Changgeng Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Luxi Zhao (Toronto), Ziwen Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Abdelrahman Abdelhamed (Toronto), Abhijith Punnappurath (North York, Canada), Ye Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ernest Rehmatulla Post (San Francisco), Michael Brown (Toronto) and Sajid Sadi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes generating, from an accessed image, one or more image patches, and for each image patch: (1) accessing a set of point-spread functio...