ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,041, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network based facial analysis using facial landmarks and associated confidence values" was invented by Nuri Murat Arar (Zurich), Niranjan Avadhanam (Saratoga, Calif.), Nishant Puri (San Francisco), Shagan Sah (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rajath Shetty (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sujay Yadawadkar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Pavlo Molchanov (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for more accurate and robust determination of subject characteristics from an image of the subject. One or more machine learning models receive as input an...