ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,850, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Fusion techniques for combining most significant bits and least significant bits of image data in image processing or other applications" was invented by Wenbo Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhipeng Mo (Coquitlam, Canada), Yi Wei (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Burak Uzkent (Mountain View, Calif.), Qian Lou (Oviedo, Fla.), Yilin Shen (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hongxia Jin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining raw image data, where the raw image data includes data values each having most significant bits and least signi...