ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,711, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Image rescaling" was invented by Shuxin Zheng (Redmond, Wash.), Chang Liu (Redmond, Wash.), Di He (Redmond, Wash.), Guolin Ke (Redmond, Wash.), Yatao Li (Beijing), Jiang Bian (Redmond, Wash.) and Tieyan Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, a solution for image rescaling is proposed. According to the solution, an input image of a first resolution is obtained. An output image of a second resolution and high-frequency information following a predetermined distribution a...