ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,948, issued on March 25, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Three dimensional object part retrieval" was invented by Nikhil Garg (Berlin), Bojan Pepik (Berlin) and Matthieu Guillaumin (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for retrieving three dimensional part models. Two-dimensional (2D) image data representing an object with at least a first part and a second part may be received. A first machine learning model may be used to generate a first shape embedding representing the first part and a second shape embedding representing the second part. A first 3D model stored...