ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,270, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural networks to generate robotic task demonstrations" was invented by Ankur Handa (Seattle), Iretiayo Akinola (Seattle), Dieter Fox (Seattle) and Yashraj Shyam Narang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for training a neural network, including generating a plurality of input vectors based on a first plurality of task demonstrations associated with a first robot performing a first task in a simulated environment, wherein each input vector included in the plurality of input vectors specifies a sequence of poses of an end-effector of the fi...