ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,308, issued on June 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Learning neural light fields with ray-space embedding networks" was invented by Changil Kim (Seattle), Benjamin Attal (Pittsburgh), Jia-Bin Huang (Fulton, Md.), Johannes Peter Kopf (Medina, Wash.) and Michael Zollhoefer (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In particular embodiments, a computing system may access a set of training images for training a neural light field network for view synthesis. Using each training image, the computing system may train the neural light field network by casting, for each pixel of the training image, a ray into a...