US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on July 15 for "Deep learning based image enhancement" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,097, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Deep learning based image enhancement" was invented by Nicholas J. Durr (Baltimore), Taylor L. Bobrow (Chesapeake, Va.) and Faisal Mahmood (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a coherent energy illuminated image, of a particular object, that includes laser speckle. The device may process, using a laser speckle reduction model, the coherent energy illuminated image to generate a laser speckle-reduced image. The device may provide the laser speckle-reduced image as output to permit diagnostics based on the laser speckle-reduced ...