US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 17 for "Neural network-based point cloud generation" (Canadian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,260, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network-based point cloud generation" was invented by Maria Shugrina (Toronto), Luca Moschella (Aprilia, Italy) and Sanja Fidler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. In at least one embodiment, one or more three-dimensional (3D) point clouds of one or more objects based is generated using one or more neural networks based, at least in part, on one or more two-dimensional (2D) images and the one or more 3D point clouds."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2023, und...