ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,743, issued on April 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image synthesis using one or more neural networks" was invented by Ziyue Xu (Reston, Va.), Xiaosong Wang (Rockville, Md.), Ling Zhang (Rockville, Md.), Holger Roth (Rockville, Md.), Daguang Xu (Potomac, Md.), Fausto Milletari (Munich), Hoo Chang Shin (Rockville, Md.) and Dong Yang (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to infer synthesized images including digital representations of objects blended realistically with appropriate background images. In at least one embodiment, background image data and a desc...