US Patent Issued to Adobe, The Regents of the University of California on May 20 for "Neural networks to render textured materials on curved surfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,576, issued on May 20, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Neural networks to render textured materials on curved surfaces" was invented by Krishna Bhargava Mullia Lakshminarayana (San Francisco), Zexiang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Milos Hasan (Lafayette, Calif.), Fujun Luan (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandr Kuznetsov (San Diego), Xuezheng Wang (San Diego) and Ravi Ramamoorthi (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scene modeling system accesses a three-dimensional (3D) scene including a 3D object. The scene modeling system applies a silhouette bidirecti...