US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 29 for "Neural network control variates" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,102, issued on July 29, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network control variates" was invented by Thomas Muller (Rheinfelden, Germany), Fabrice Pierre Armand Rousselle (Ostermundigen, Switzerland), Alexander Georg Keller (Berlin) and Jan Novak (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo integration are simple numerical recipes for solving complicated integration problems, such as valuating financial derivatives or synthesizing photorealistic images by light transport simulation. A drawback of a straightforward application of (quasi-)Monte Carlo integration is the r...