ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,125, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reducing noise in video frames" was invented by Yi Guo (Zhejiang, China), Zhichu He (Zhejiang, China), Rui Li (Zhejiang, China), Bo Ling (Saratoga, Calif.), Jing Wu (Zhejiang, China), Minxia Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Yichen Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Noise can be reduced in video frames by performing one or more techniques described herein. For example, a system can divide a video frame into a set of blocks, determine a variance associated with a selected block, generate first frequency residuals associated with the selec...