ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,015, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive video filter" was invented by Marta Karczewicz (San Diego), Nan Hu (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Hongtao Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device includes one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to determine a first value associated with a first window, the first window including a target block of video data. The one or more processors are configured to determine a respective difference between each sample value within a second window a...