ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,873, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System integrated machine-learning co-processing" was invented by Yow-Wei Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung Jen Chen (TaoYuan, Taiwan) and Sheng-Han Tsai (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described adds a ML inference to the output of an image signal processor (ISP) associated with a camera. The combined image and ML inference may be described herein as an augmented image. Once generated, the augmented image may be communicated to other components of a computing system associated with the camera and/or ISP. The initial...