ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,291, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for error concealment of missing image data" was invented by Sorin C Cismas (Saratoga, Calif.), Alhad A Palkar (San Jose, Calif.), Kaushik Raghunath (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arun Kannan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Manjunath M Venkatesh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a first integrated circuit configured to render image data and transport the image data. Further, the system includes a second integrated circuit configured to receive the image data, determine whether the image data is missing data that was expected t...