ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,998, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Plausible dayscale timelapse generation method and computing device" was invented by Gleb Mikhailovich Sterkin (Moscow), Ivan Aleksandrovich Anokhin (Moscow), Taras Andreevich Khakhulin (Moscow), Aleksei Vladislavovich Kharlamov (Moscow), Denis Mikhailovich Korzhenkov (Moscow), Victor Sergeevich Lempitsky (Moscow), Sergey Igorevich Nikolenko (Moscow), Aleksei Sergeevich Silvestrov (Moscow) and Pavel Ilich Solovev (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a field of plausible timelapse image(s) generation from a single i...