ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,488, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Synthetic image generation for supplementing neural field representations and related applications" was invented by Or Litany (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sanja Fidler (Toronto), Cho-Ying Wu (Los Angeles), Huan Ling (Toronto), Zan Gojcic (Zurich), Riccardo De Lutio (Zurich) and Sameh Khamis (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to neural networks for three-dimensional (3D) scene representations and modifying the 3D scene representations. In some implementations, a diffusion model can be config...