ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,866, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Revealit Corp. (Seattle).

"User directed video generation method and system" was invented by Garry Anthony Smith (Sydney), Zachary Oakes (Kochl City, Japan) and Steven Dennis Flinn (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user directed video generation method and system obtains a natural language-based communication from a user requesting that a computer-implemented system generate a virtual environment that is based on a description that is provided by the user. The description is interpreted by a trained neural network. Representations of pixel patterns are generated by a trained n...