US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Real-time facial restoration and relighting in videos using facial enhancement neural networks" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,096, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Real-time facial restoration and relighting in videos using facial enhancement neural networks" was invented by Samira Pouyanfar (San Jose, Calif.), Sunando Sengupta (Berkshire, Great Britain), Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade (Oxford, Great Britain), Anjali S. Parikh (Redmond, Wash.), Ebey Paulose Abraham (Oxford, Great Britain), Brian Timothy Hawkins (Sammamish, Wash.) and Mahmoud Mohammadi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image restoration system that efficiently and accurately produces hig...