ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,604, issued on July 28, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Learned image transformation methods and systems in graphics rendering" was invented by Arturo Tommaso Salmi (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Szabolcs Csefalvay (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and James Imber (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transforming rendered frames in a graphics processing system to obtain enhanced frames with desired characteristics of a set of target images includes selecting a plurality of shaders, each defined by a parametrized mathematical function arranged to replicate a particul...