ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,973, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Visual servoing with real-time diffusion-based image inpainting" was invented by Rodrigo Aldana Lopez (Zapopan, Mexico), David Gomez Gutierrez (Tlaquepaque, Mexico), Leobardo Campos Macias (Guadalajara, Mexico), Javier Felip Leon (Hillsboro, Ore.) and David Gonzalez Aguirre (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of visual servoing based on use of a generative diffusion model are described. One technique includes obtaining a current view image from a robot camera that captures a portion of an environment of the robot, and obtaining a sp...