US Patent Issued to Levi Strauss & Co. on July 22 for "Visualizing garments in shadow neutral 3-D" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,301, issued on July 22, was assigned to Levi Strauss & Co. (San Francisco).

"Visualizing garments in shadow neutral 3-D" was invented by Christopher Schultz (Beaverton, Ore.), Debdulal Mahanty (Fremont, Calif.), James Barton Sights (San Francisco), Benjamin Bell (San Francisco) and Jennifer Schultz (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs in three dimensions before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the patte...