US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 14 for "Neural vector fields for 3D shape generation" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,890, issued on April 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural vector fields for 3D shape generation" was invented by Zekun Hao (New York), Ming-Yu Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Arun Mohanray Mallya (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthesis of high-quality 3D shapes with smooth surfaces has various creative and practical use cases, such as 3D content creation and CAD modeling. A vector field decoder neural network is trained to predict a generative vector field (GVF) representation of a 3D shape from a latent representation (latent code or feature volume) of the 3D shape. The GVF representation is...