ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,708, issued on June 30.

"Method for stochastic computing image processing using correlation controlled contingency tables" was invented by Mohammadhassan Najafi (Lafayette, La.), Sercan Aygun (Lafayette, La.) and Ece Olca Gunes (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein a method for agile simulation of a stochastic computing image processing where the input operands are processed with the aid of a correlation-controlled contingency table (CT) construct without using actual stochastic bit-streams. The disclosed method utilizes contingency tables to perform (i) template matching, (ii) image compositing, and (iii) p...