ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,349, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to WAABI Canada Inc. (Toronto).

"Deferred neural lighting in augmented image generation" was invented by Ava Pun (Waterloo, Canada), Gary Sun (Waterloo, Canada), Jingkang Wang (Toronto), Yun Chen (Toronto), Ze Yang (Toronto), Sivabalan Manivasagam (Toronto), Wei-Chiu Ma (Cambridge, Canada) and Raquel Urtasun (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deferred neural lighting in augmented image generation includes performing operations. The operations include generating a source light representation of a real-world scene from a panoramic image of the real-world scene, augmenting the real-world scene i...