ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,544, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image restoration method and apparatus" was invented by Kinam Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunhee Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwon Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sujin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyongeuk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeseok Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Byungin Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image restoration method includes determining degradation information indicating a degradation factor of a degraded image, tuning the degradation information based on a tuning condition, and gene...