ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,344, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Unity Technologies SF (San Francisco).

"AI-assisted texture generation" was invented by Florent Benjamin Bocquelet (Chambery, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AI-assisted texture generation system and method that generates a texture for an object such as a 3D mesh. At a given iteration, the system renders, from a viewpoint, one or more of an object depth and a cumulative texture associated with a cumulative pixel quality map; determines an estimated pixel quality map associated with the viewpoint; generates, at the viewpoint, a new texture associated with the object based on one or more...