ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,543, issued on June 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system to implement application programming interface (API) indicating frame interpolation support for interpolating video frames" was invented by Robert Thomas Pottorff (Layton, Utah), Karan Sapra (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew Leighton Edelsten (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to process image frames. In at least one embodiment, an application programming interface (API) is performed to indicate support to use one or more neural networks to perform frame interpolation."

The patent was filed...