US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on July 15 for "Dynamic facial hair capture of a subject" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,663, issued on July 15, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Dynamic facial hair capture of a subject" was invented by Derek Edward Bradley (Zurich, Switzerland), Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo (Zurich, Switzerland), Gaspard Zoss (Zurich, Switzerland), Prashanth Chandran (Zurich, Switzerland) and Sebastian Winberg (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods and systems for generating three-dimensional (3D) models and facial hair models representative of subjects (...