ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,455, issued on July 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network for image registration and image segmentation trained using a registration simulator" was invented by Wentao Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.), Daguang Xu (Potomac, Md.), Andriy Myronenko (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ziyue Xu (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform registration among images. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are trained to indicate registration of features in common among at least two images by generating a first correspondence by simulating a registration process ...