ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,103, issued on June 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Network architecture for 3D image processing" was invented by Asher Gringauz (Nesher, Israel) and Liran Goshen (Pardes-Hanna, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing input 3D image data. In a first phase, the input 3D image data is separately processed using one or more neural networks to produce one or more modified 3D image data. In a second phase, the input 3D image data and the modified 3D image data are processed using neural networks to produce an output. The neural networks that produce the modified 3D image data ...