ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,277, issued on April 29, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High-precision semantic image editing using neural networks for synthetic data generation systems and applications" was invented by Huan Ling (Toronto), Karsten Kreis (Vancouver, Canada), Daiqing Li (Oakville, Canada), Seung Wook Kim (Toronto), Antonio Torralba Barriuso (Somerville, Mass.) and Sanja Fidler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, high-precision semantic image editing for machine learning systems and applications are described. For example, a generative adversarial network (GAN) may be used to jointly model images and thei...