ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,492, issued on March 25, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for training a three-dimensional face reconstruction model and method and apparatus for generating a three-dimensional face image" was invented by Di Wang (Beijing), Ruizhi Chen (Beijing), Chen Zhao (Beijing), Jingtuo Liu (Beijing), Errui Ding (Beijing), Tian Wu (Beijing) and Haifeng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a three-dimensional face reconstruction model includes inputting an acquired sample face image into a three-dimensional face reconstruction model to obtain a coordin...