ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,737, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Rapid reconstruction of high resolution images from lower resolution images" was invented by Xiao Jin (Jersey City, N.J.), Chulin Wang (Evanston, Ill.), Andres Codas Duarte (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Kyong Min Yeo (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Levente Klein (Tuckahoe, N.Y.) and Bruce Gordon Elmegreen (Goldens Bridge, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is disclosed that receives a time sequence of low-resolution images, each of the low-resolution images depicting a physics event. The approach interpolates two adjacent low-resolution image...