ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,602, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Text-driven 3D object stylization using neural networks" was invented by Kangxue Yin (Toronto), Huan Ling (Toronto), Masha Shugrina (Toronto), Sameh Khamis (Alameda, Calif.) and Sanja Fidler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation of three-dimensional (3D) object models may be challenging for users without a sufficient skill set for content creation and may also be resource intensive. One or more style transfer networks may be combined with a generative network to generate objects based on parameters associated with a textual input. An input inc...