ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,513, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Methods, systems and computer programs for processing image data for generating a filter" was invented by Nikhil Kapoor (Wolfsburg, Germany), Peter Schlicht (Wolfsburg, Germany), Serin Varghese (Braunschweig, Germany) and Tim Fingscheidt (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program for processing image data, to a vehicle comprising such a system, and to a method, system and computer program for generating a filter. Image data processing may include obtaining the image data, and applying a filter on the image dat...