ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,660, issued on June 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fourier transform-based image synthesis using neural networks" was invented by Morteza Mardani Korani (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guilin Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Aysegul Dundar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shiqiu Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew J. Tao (Los Altos, Calif.) and Bryan Christopher Catanzaro (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to scale textured images using a Fourier transform in conjunction with one or more neural networks. In at least one embodiment, a neural network generates an expanded image from...