ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,261, issued on July 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Extending supervision using machine learning" was invented by Lickkong Tam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ali Hatamizadeh (Los Angeles), Kevin Frank Lu (Washington), Yuhong Wen (McLean, Va.), Daguang Xu (Potomac, Md.), Riddhish Bhalodia (Salt Lake City), Wenqi Li (London), Can Zhao (Rockville, Md.) and Xiaosong Wang (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate labeled training data. In at least one embodiment, labeled training images are generated from medial images annotated with natural language text."

The patent...