ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,853, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SUBTLE MEDICAL INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for real-time video enhancement" was invented by David Van Veen (San Francisco), Long Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ben Andrew Duffy (Mountain View, Calif.), Enhao Gong (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tao Zhang (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for improving live video quality. The method comprises: acquiring, using a medical imaging apparatus, a stream of consecutive image frames of a subject, and the stream of consecutive image frames are acquired with reduced amount of radiation dose...