ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,685, issued on July 21, was assigned to PERIDOT PRINT LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Simulated powdered model generation for neural networks" was invented by Joyce Xin Yan Lim (Singapore) and Quang-Cuong Pham (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of simulated powdered model generation for neural networks are described herein. In some examples, a set of simulated powdered models that simulate application of powder to a computer aided design (CAD) model are generated. In some examples, synthetic images of the simulated powdered models placed in a virtual environment are generated...