ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,552, issued on July 14, was assigned to Stevens Law Group, P.C. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AI methods for transforming a text prompt into an immersive volumetric photo or video" was invented by Lawrence Wayne Neal (Salem, Ore.) and Forrest Briggs (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A text-to-image prompt is processed using a text-to-image machine learning model to obtain a non-immersive (e.g., rectilinear image). The non-immersive image may be enhanced by a superresolution machine learning model and processed with a monoscopic depth estimation model to obtain a depthmap. The non-immersive image and the depthmap may be convert...