ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,697, issued on July 28, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Object characterization using one or more neural networks" was invented by Daguang Xu (Potomac, Md.), Xiaosong Wang (Rockville, Md.), Lickkong Tam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Riddhish Bhalodia (Salt Lake City), Kevin Lu (Washington), Yuhong Wen (McLean, Va.) and Ali Hatmizadeh (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to detect one or more objects in one or more images. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks can be used to detect one or more objects in one or more images based, at least in part...