ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,095, issued on March 4, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for generating a three dimensional model for a listing" was invented by Qiaosong Wang (Belmont, Calif.), Antonio Haro (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Nitzan Mekel (Purchase, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application server associated with an online marketplace may receive a set of images of an item, spatial information associated with each image of the set of images indicating a relative spatial location to the item for each image, and viewing direction information indicating a viewing direction relative to the item for each image. The application s...