US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Machine learning refinement networks for video post-processing scenarios" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,198, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine learning refinement networks for video post-processing scenarios" was invented by Matthew Lawrence Bronder (Bellevue, Wash.), Saswata Mandal (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sameer Avinash Nene (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in machine learning ("ML") networks used in video processing scenarios are described. For example, an ML refinement network can be used to refine video after a video decoder has reconstructed the video. Using the ML refinement network for post-processing can mitigate compression artifacts introdu...