ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,781, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for content synthesis using denoising diffusion models" was invented by Tero Tapani Karras (Helsinki), Miika Aittala (Helsinki), Timo Oskari Aila (Tuusula, Finland) and Samuli Laine (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed herein for generating a content item. The techniques include receiving a content item and metadata indicating a level of corruption associated with the content item; and for each iteration included in a plurality of iterations: performing one or more operations to add corruption to a first versi...