ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,144, issued on April 1, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Training and inferencing using a neural network to predict orientations of objects in images" was invented by Siva Karthik Mustikovela (Lowell, Mass.), Varun Jampani (Nashua, N.H.), Shalini De Mello (San Francisco), Sifei Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Umar Iqbal (San Jose, Calif.) and Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify orientations of objects within images. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are trained to identify an orientations of one or more objects based, at least...