ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,021, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Voice driven 3D static asset creation in computer simulations" was invented by Sudha Krishnamurthy (San Mateo, Calif.) and Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D scene is generated consisting of one or more objects from a natural language description that may consist of text or voice. Relevant keywords like asset attributes and placement are extracted from the description. Using these keywords, a 2D image is generated using a generative model. Another neural model is used to reconstruct the 3D objects from the 2D. The ...