ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,560, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generative adversarial network based identification of induced deformation in three-dimensional object" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for identifying induced deformation of a 3D object is provided. The embodiment may include receiving an unaltered three-dimensional (3D) rendering of an object and attrib...