ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,317, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Physics-based image generation using one or more neural networks" was invented by Tingwu Wang (Toronto), Yunrong Guo (Richmond Hill, Canada), Cheng Xie (Vancouver, Canada), Xue Bin Peng (Vancouver, Canada) and Sanja Fidler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to generate images representing realistic motion or activity. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to generate one or more images of one or more characters performing one or more actions based, at least in part, upon one o...