US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 19 for "Object rearrangement using learned implicit collision functions" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,929, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Object rearrangement using learned implicit collision functions" was invented by Michael Danielczuk (Berkeley, Calif.), Arsalan Mousavian (Seattle), Clemens Eppner (Seattle) and Dieter Fox (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for determining whether collisions will occur in potential paths of an object within a scene. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks determine whether collisions will occur in potential paths of an object within a scene based at least in part on point cloud data of the object and ...