ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,516, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data augmentation using conditioned generative models for synthetic content generation" was invented by John Welsh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Amit Goel (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic data generation systems and methods are disclosed for augmenting synthetic scenes using neural networks that are conditioned on depth information. The synthetic data generation system may use a guided latent diffusion model to generate (or augment) synthetic images, which can subsequently be used to train other models to perform tasks such as object detec...