ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,237, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"End-to-end scene graph generation" was invented by Angela Blechschmidt (San Jose, Calif.), Deep Chakraborty (Amherst, Mass.), Alexander Savvas Polichroniadis (San Francisco), Mingshan Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Eshan Verma (Mountain View, Calif.) and Daniel Ulbricht (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of generating a scene graph includes generating the scene graph using an end-to-end scene graph generator comprising an integrated neural network. For example, in various implementations, the method includes obtaining...