ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,515, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to APPLICATIONS MOBILES OVERVIEW INC. (Montreal).

"System and method of generating a 3D representation of an object" was invented by Laurent Juppe (Montreal) and Sherif Esmat Omar Abuelwafa (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to generating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of an object, the method comprising accessing a 3D point cloud reconstruction of the object, accessing a 3D model template, the 3D model template defining a generic version of the object, aligning, in a geometrical space, the 3D model template with respect to t...