US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Iowa State University Research Foundation on Aug. 25 for "Generative adversarial networks for structural damage diagnostics" (Florida, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,804, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) and Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Generative adversarial networks for structural damage diagnostics" was invented by Furkan Luleci (Orlando, Fla.), F. Necati Catbas (Orlando, Fla.) and Onur Avci (Morgantown, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein relates to a system and method utilizing a novel Wasserstein Deep Convolutional GAN with Gradient Penalty ("WDCGAN-GP") and Cycle-Consistent Wasserstein Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks with Gradient Penalty ("CycleWDC...