ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,629, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Model-based augmented image generation" was invented by Oleksandr Vorobiov (Albstadt, Germany), Wei-Lin Hsiao (Seattle), Nicolas Heron (New York) and Apoorv Chaudhri (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for generating a virtual try-on augmented image. An example method can include A system can access a first two-dimensional model of a target garment. The system can determine a first plurality of shape keypoints for a first part of the first plurality of parts of the image. The system can access a second two-dimens...