ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,221, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Unsupervised pre-training of neural networks using generative models" was invented by Daiqing Li (Oakville, Canada), Huan Ling (Toronto), Seung Wook Kim (Toronto), Karsten Julian Kreis (Vancouver, Canada), Antonio Torralba Barriuso (Somerville, Mass.), Sanja Fidler (Toronto) and Amlan Kar (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to generating a response from image and/or video input for image/video-based artificial intelligence (AI) systems and applications. Systems and methods are disclosed for a ...