ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,683, issued on June 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for differentiable deep object pose estimation" was invented by Jonathan Tremblay (Redmond, Wash.), Stanley Birchfield (Sammamish, Wash.), Valts Blukis (Seattle), Balakumar Sundaralingam (Seattle), Stephen Tyree (University City, Mo.) and Bowen Wen (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of a method for determining object poses includes receiving first sensor data and second sensor data, where the first sensor data is associated with a first modality, and the second sensor data is associated with a second modality that is di...