ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,535, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to 3I INC. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Pre-processing method for creating 3D virtual model and computing device therefor" was invented by Ken Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Wuck Jung (Goyang-si, South Korea), Farkhod Rustam Ugli Khudayberganov (Seoul, South Korea) and Mikhail Li (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hole-filling method, performable on a computing device, for providing a three-dimensional virtual model according to a technical aspect of the present application may comprises the operations of: acquiring an original training image and a hole creation training image, wherein t...