ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,705, issued on June 16, was assigned to ZHEJIANG HERYMED TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods and systems for image quality assessment" was invented by Cheng Shen (Hangzhou, China), Chaohui Jin (Hangzhou, China), Ming Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Huogen Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and a system for image quality assessment. The method may include obtaining a first image of a target video, wherein the first image may be determined based on a target video frame in the target video; and determining a target image quality of the target video frame ba...