ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,653, issued on July 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for identifying occluded objects using a neural network" was invented by Siva Kumar Sastry Hari (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jason Lavar Clemons (Leander, Texas) and Timothy Kohchih Tsai (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, techniques for detecting occluded objects within an environment are described. For instance, systems and methods may receive training data representing images and ground truth data indicating whether the images are associated with occluded objects or whether the images are not associated with occlude...