ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,588, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Face model capture by a wearable device" was invented by Gholamreza Amayeh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Adrian Kaehler (Los Angeles) and Douglas Lee (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a face model for a user of a head-mounted device are disclosed. The head-mounted device can include one or more eye cameras configured to image the face of the user while the user is putting the device on or taking the device off. The images obtained by the eye cameras may be analyzed using a stereoscopic vision technique, a monocu...