ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,955, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Glendale, Calif.).

"Neural network-based noise synthesis" was invented by Ali Hatamizadeh (Los Angeles), Hongxu Yin (San Jose, Calif.), Holger Roth (Rockville, Md.), Wenqi Li (London), Jan Kautz (Lexington, Mass.), Daguang Xu (Potomac, Md.) and Pavlo Molchanov (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to introduce noise or variation into images. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to determine noise to be added to one or more images of one or more objects based, at least in part, upon one or ...