ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,609, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data generation of robotic devices performing tasks" was invented by Ajay Uday Mandlekar (Cupertino, Calif.), Soroush Nasiriany (Austin, Texas), Bowen Wen (Bellevue, Wash.), Iretiayo Akinola (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Yashraj Shyam Narang (Mountain View, Calif.), Linxi Fan (San Jose, Calif.), Yuke Zhu (Austin, Texas) and Dieter Fox (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate data to train a robotic device to perform tasks. In at least one embodiment, one or more first videos of a robotic device performing a task is used t...