ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,446, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Apparatus and methods for unsupervised image denoising using double over-parameterization" was invented by Tiantian Li (Oakland, Calif.), Zhaoheng Xie (Oakland, Calif.), Wenyuan Qi (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Li Yang (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Evren Asma (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Jinyi Qi (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for image denoising whereby a deep image prior (DIP) neural network is trained to produce a...