ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,125, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Real time image converter using 2D to 3D rendering" was invented by Qing Ye (Hopkinton, Mass.), Zhisong Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Rowland Shaw (Chester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes obtaining a group of two dimensional images of a target, rendering, in real time immediately after the two dimensional images are obtained, a three dimensional model of the target, using the two dimensional images, and generating an output comprising the three dimensional model. The three dimensional model may then be compared with another vers...