ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,224, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural networks to adjust brightness of pixels" was invented by Shiqiu Liu (Cupertino, Calif.), Pietari Armas Kaskela (Helsinki), Jussi Rasanen (Uusimaa, Finland), James Matthew Norton (Durham, N.C.), Juho Marttila (Uusimaa, Finland) and David Tarjan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform neural networks. In at least one embodiment, a processor comprising one or more circuits uses one or more neural networks to adjust brightness of pixels of images prior to denoising the images."

The patent was ...