ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,010, issued on March 31, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network-based image lighting" was invented by Ting-Chun Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ming-Yu Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Koki Nagano (Playa Vista, Calif.), Sameh Khamis (Alameda, Calif.) and Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to generate image data. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to cause a lighting effect to be applied to one or more objects within one or more images based, at least in part, on synthetically generated images of the one or more ob...