ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,781, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Flawless Holdings Ltd. (London).

"Landmark localization using three-dimensional transformations" was invented by Pablo Garrido (Hawthorne, Calif.), Xingzhe He (Vancouver, Canada) and Gaurav Bharaj (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining a source image and a target image, determining a first point cluster by processing the source image using a machine learning mode, determining a second point cluster by processing the target image using the machine learning model, uplifting the first point cluster to obtain an uplifted first point cl...