ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,747, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Systems, methods, and media for generating digital images using low bit depth image sensor data" was invented by Matthew Dutson (Madison, Wis.) and Mohit Gupta (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for generating digital images using low bit depth image sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: an image sensor; a processor programmed to: receive, from the image sensor, a series of low bit depth frames; provide low bit depth image informatio...