ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,251, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DE-IDENTIFICATION LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for reconstruction of a three-dimensional human head model from a single image" was invented by Or Gorodissky (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amitay Nachmani (Tel Aviv, Israel), Matan Feldman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eliran Kuta (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Perry (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Sella Blondheim (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) face model from an input 2D image of the face, including: feeding the input 2D image into at least one preparatory network to generate 3D landmarks...