ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,777, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Anomaly detection using neural radiance fields" was invented by Eliyahu Schwartz (Haifa, Israel), Leonid Karlinsky (Acton, Mass.), Assaf Arbelle (Lehvot Haviva, Israel), Sivan Harary (Manof, Israel) and Roi Herzig (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting data anomalies by receiving a query image, determining a query image viewpoint according to a trained neural radiance field model, generating a 2D reference image according to the neural radiance field model, determining a difference between the query image and the ref...