ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,062, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Real-time neural light field on mobile devices" was invented by Jian Ren (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Pavlo Chemerys (North Holland, Netherlands), Vladislav Shakhrai (London), Ju Hu (Los Angeles), Denys Makoviichuk (Playa Vista, Calif.), Sergey Tulyakov (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Junli Cao (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural light field (NeLF) that runs real-time on mobile devices for neural rendering of three dimensional (3D) scenes, referred to as MobileR2L. The MobileR2L architecture runs efficiently on mobile devices with low latency and small ...