ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,618, issued on June 23, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Techniques for denoising videos" was invented by Yang Zhang (Dubendorf, Switzerland), Tunc Ozan Aydin (Zurich) and Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for denoising videos. In some embodiments, video frames are denoised using a denoising model that includes an encoder-decoder architecture and attention modules. During training of the denoising model, the attention modules learn weightings to upweight certain dimensions of input features to help pixel registration, remove ghosting art...