ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,273, issued on March 4, was assigned to META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Neural 3D video synthesis" was invented by Zhaoyang Lv (Redmond, Wash.), Miroslava Slavcheva (Seattle), Tianye Li (Los Angeles), Michael Zollhoefer (Pittsburgh), Simon Gareth Green (Deptford, Great Britain), Tanner Schmidt (Seattle), Michael Goesele (Woodinville, Wash.), Steven John Lovegrove (Woodinville, Wash.), Christoph Lassner (San Francisco) and Changil Kim (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes initializing latent codes respectively associated with times associated with frames in a training video...