ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,031, issued on March 11, was assigned to 3SHAPE A/S (Copenhagen K, Denmark).

"Method for generating objects using an hourglass predictor" was invented by Jens Peter Traff (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Jens Christian Jorgensen (Seattle), Alejandro Alonso Diaz (Copenhagen K, Denmark), Mathias Bogh Stokholm (Copenhagen K, Denmark) and Asger Vejen Hoedt (Vallensbaek, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a 2D or 3D object, including training an autoencoder on a first set of training data to identify a first set of latent variables and generate a first set of output data; training an hourglass pre...