ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,859, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for generating depth information from low-resolution images" was invented by Michael Bleyer (Seattle), Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.), Antonios Matakos (Redmond, Wash.) and Raymond Kirk Price (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating depth information from low-resolution images is configured to access a plurality of image frames capturing an environment, identify a first group of image frames from the plurality of image frames, and generate a first image comprising a first com...