US Patent Issued to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON BEHALF OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Fingerphoto deblurring using deep learning GAN architectures" (West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,207, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON BEHALF OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, W.va.).

"Fingerphoto deblurring using deep learning GAN architectures" was invented by Nasser M. Nasrabadi (Morgantown, W.va.), Jeremy M. Dawson (Fairmont, W.va.), Amol Joshi (Morgantown, W.va.) and Ali Dabouei (Morgantown, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to fingerphoto deblurring. In one example, a method includes generating, using a guided-attention (GA) mechanism, an intermediate feature map of a blurred image of a fingerprint and generating a deblurred im...