ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,699, issued on July 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for head pose determination" was invented by Parual Datta (Bangalore, India), Nilesh Ahuja (Cupertino, Calif.) and Javier Felip Leon (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimating a head pose may include obtaining sensor data corresponding to a head and at least a portion of the body of a human subject and determining an estimate of a three-dimensional (3D) body pose using the obtained sensor data. The estimation can further include generating a first rendering of at least the human subject's head using the obtained s...