ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,583, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques to process layers of a three-dimensional image using one or more neural networks" was invented by Carl Jacob Munkberg (Skane, Sweden) and Jon Niklas Theodor Hasselgren (Skane, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify one or more layers of a three-dimensional graphical image to generate a two-dimensional representation. In at least one embodiment, one or more layers of a three-dimensional graphical image are identified to generate one or more two-dimensional representations."

The patent was filed on Ju...