ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,520, issued on March 25, was assigned to V-Silicon Semiconductor (Hefei) Co. Ltd (Hefei, China).

"Image resolution enhancement by value transfer" was invented by Jeroen Maria Kettenis (Geldern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method, includes producing a centralness metric that is highest at a center of detail from a set of pixels and having a negative slope to neighboring pixels from a center pixel at the center of detail, calculating a delta signal for the set of pixels using the produced centralness metric and pixel values of the set of pixels, generating a squeezed pixel value for each of the pixel values...